California Condor Eben McMillan 26 may 1964 I left home at 10:30 A.M. en route to east side of the San Joaquin Valley. The weather has been threatening this last week, light showers have fallen at times but not enough to wet things much. A brisk, cool, west wind was blowing as I drove down the Bitterwater Valley. I turned north at Dairy avenue and drove to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Waterfowl Refuge, on west side of Dairy avenue to the north of Lost Hills on east side of Jerry Slough. The Refuge is completely dry now and I understand the water is turned into the dikes in the fall prior to the migration southward of waterfowl. I left Dairy Avenue at avenue 56 heading towards Alpaugh and continued on this roadway to Highway 99. After getting on Highway 99 I drove to Tulare where I was told that Tulare County Offices are located in Visalia. At County Office in Visalia I was referred to Jim Rutledge, in Porterville, who oversees Squirrel Poisoning Operations where Compound 1080 is being used as the poison, only County Representatives can give out poison treated with Compound 1080 for use in poisoning rodents. This County Representative of the Agricultural Commissioners Office must continue to oversee the application of this 1080 poison during its total usage and in no case is 1080 poison to be left with non-official applicators. In Porterville I first went to the office of the U.S. Forest Service, where I was introduced to Don Bolander, who is with the Range Wildlife Staff at the U.S. Forest Service Office in Porterville-