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California Condor. Eben McMillan 21 may 1964
were any relationship to Ian McMillan who lived in
San Luis Obispo, County, and who, sometime back, had
suffered some loss of trees to the drift of spray from
a neighbors operation, whereby aerial spraying operation
applied to kill weeds in a grain field. Mr. Steinweden had been
aware of this incident when Ian McMillan had asked, or
demanded, that agricultural personnel be sent to his place
to assess the damage and witness the problem. Mr.
Steinweden had also heard of Ian McMillan through William
Warne who some years ago was Director of the California
Department of Agriculture, and later Director of California
Department of Fish and Game and when under this title
had been at Ian's place shooting Quail. Mr. Steinweden
also inquired as to what I thought the number of Condor
now surviving to be. I instructed him as to our study,
and that it was hoped we could shed some light
on this question when all material and field notes
had been compiled and assessed, hopefully, by the end
of this year.
I drove to U.S. Forest Service Office in Bakersfield and
found Opal Grimes at her desk. She informed me that
Ranger Toland was in the field today. No information on
Condor was forthcoming from this office, but Opal Grimes
did tell me that a Gay Burk had been posted at Oak
Flat Lookout last Tuesday and this lady had been
ordered to keep records of, and send such records to the
Bakersfield Office, of any Condor sightings she might have-