California Condor Eben McMillan 21 may 1964 Steinweden who is Regional Coordinator, Department of Agricultural, State of California, 107 Broadway, Los Angeles 12, California. Mr. Steinweden brought to my attention, a facsimile [illegible] of a letter that had been written, a short time ago, by District Ranger Edwin Morse of the Coyama Ranger Station, to the agricultural Commissioner of Santa Barbara County in which Ranger Morse was advising said Commissioner that the use of 1080 or Thallium was not being used on U.S. Forest Service Lands and that Ranger Morse thought the squirrel problem acute enough on the forest lands in his charge that he was asking that the program be carried out using Strychnine or other forms of poison on the grain. Mr. Morse made it plain, in this letter, that the Order [illegible] Preventing the use of 1080 and Thallium poisons on U.S. Forest Service lands was a Departmental order and not one from his Office in particular. Mr. Steinweden was wondering what I knew about an article that had appeared in Print, of late, where it was stated that Two Condor had been found death in Kern County and the cause of death had been found to be 1080 poison. I told him I had read of this article in a copy of the Fresno Bee, that I had no idea how long ago the article was printed and that the information, to the best of my memory, came from the University of California. Mr. Steinweden seemed somewhat disturbed at the Condor incident and asked if I -