California Condor Eban McMillan 22 april 1964 From Bakersfield I called Jim Toland of the U.S. Forest Service Office in Bakersfield who informed me that no sightings of Condor had been turned into his Office in 1964. He also told me that he had read the press release, by Audubon on the Condor survey, in the Bakersfield Californian of yesterday. Mr. Toland said that Helen King would not be at Oak Flat Lookout this coming summer, but that another lady was taking this post that should be activated sometime after the first week in May and that the lookout on Breckenridge Mountain would be the same lady as was there last season and this lookout would probably not be activated until after June 1, 1964. Mr. Toland asked that I notify him whenever I might be going to either of these two lookouts, Oak Flat or Breckenridge Mountain, so that he could brief the lookouts there as to the importance of my visits. The Secretary in the Office of the Agricultural Commissioner of Kern County told me of hearing of the Condor News release over one of the Bakersfield Radio Stations within the last few days. I drove to Arvin, Calif. where I stopped at the Standard Oil Company Service Station on the east edge of that Town to get a New Tire for my pickup. Mr. Evans Boyce, attendant and Manager of this Station, even having lived in Arvin for 20 years, and having heard of Condor many times during this period, and he having spent considerable time in the hills east of Arvin hunting, still had never had the opportunity of observing a Condor. Just a few weeks—