California Condor Elbern McMillan 25 April 1964 At one point on this Re-key operation of the U.S. Forest Service we followed a line where barbed-wire and Posts had been scattered from the ridge top down to within a mile and one-half of the bottom of Sesquoc river and within two miles of Sesquoc Falls. This fence only seems to be dividing one brush patch from another, and seems to be opening up an area, with the building of roads and trails, that could be of great interest to the welfare of Condor for those roads and trails being built in order to construct this fence will allow automotive travel within a problem distance of a known Condor roost and possibly a Condor Nest site. What the purpose of this fence is meant to accomplish it is hard for me to understand. One thing for sure and that is that the number of cattle that will be pastured on those developed Re-key spots with the accompanying expensive fences will never pay for this work even if they were on pasture on those spots at 20 dollars per head per month. If this operation is not the best example of boondoggling of public funds that has ever been promoted then I would like to see one that would beat it. I think the public should demand a thorough appraisal of this whole affair before more funds are squandered and more areas laid waste that at best will never be more than brushland. We lunched at the end of the proposed fence right-of-way, looking down on Sesquoc Falls and the Sesquoc river. Three Red-Tailed Hawks gambolod about in the air in front of us—