California condor survey field notes, v1477
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California Condor Ebou McMillan 10 February 1969 Of one ounce of Compound 1080 to one hundred pounds of grain when mixing squirrel poison. Pocket Copper Poison can be treated at two ounces per one hundred pounds of grain. Mr. Easley said that it was on the property belonging to Mrs. E.L. Taughin that is approximately two miles Southwest of Granite Station, that is about 20 miles North by Northeast of Bakersfield, Kern County California, that the Margaret Brown Condor was found. Mr. Ben Easley also informed me that his office has as many as six crews of squirrel poisoning persons going in Kern County at the same time. This usually in the months of May-June and July and on occasions well up into September. In the Summer months of 1956 one crew of men poisoned squirrels on the San Emidio Ranch for sixty-four days. On one area of the San Emidio Ranch property crews under Mr. Easleys supervision were applying as much as hree hundred pounds of poisoned grain to an acre. That in the process of making a test on the [illegible] Galanini property West of Inclifflick, Kern County California that a plot one-quarter mile long and one hundred fifty yards wide was treated with poisoned wheat that had been mixed with Compound 1080 at the rate of two ounces per hundred pounds of grain. Following this application sixty dead squirrels were found on top of the ground inside this test area. In a like area that had been treated with- [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]