California condor survey field notes, v1477
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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-