California Condor Eben McMillan 13 May 1964 On Government lands, like the Forest Service Lands, when a crew of Easley's men are Poisoning for some operator who has a grazing lease, his men will do the Poisoning here. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will then furnish him with the Poison, for in a case of this kind Mr. Easley said, that were his office to go through the proper channels of getting permission from the Forest Service, or any other Government Branch, it would take two or three years, so the U.S.F.T.W. Service just issue him the poison and his men do the job of applying. Mr. Easley also told me that sometimes Poison that they have on hand, for any length of time, becomes dehydrated. When this happens they his Office sends this poison back to Fish Wildlife in Boise, Idaho where the Poison is Concentrated again and returned to his Office in a usable form. Ben Easley told me that the San Emigdio Ranch was planning on Poisoning Squirrels soon and that he just did not know their exact plans. I drove to the San Emigdio Ranch in order to set their plans on squirrel poisoning for I think this could concentrate Condor in that area. I found Walter Slaytor in a cast with a broken leg that he had suffered on 17 April 1964. Mr. Slaytor told me of their plans to Poison the San Emigdio in about ten days time with Strychnine poisoned grain. This way he could do the applying with his own men at times when the Cowboys had little else to do. Slaytor said the-