California Condor Eben McMillan 29 May 1969 Programs the agricultural Commissioners Office expects To kill some animals by mistake. In this statement he Was referring to the two Condor that had been found in Kern County. Before making this statement he asked me if it were Jan and I that picked up these birds. I told him it was. To his question as to where they went I told him the University of California. This ended his questions. Referring back to his mention of his office always expecting to kill some animals by mistake in a Pest control program, Mr. Morley stated that this is always the case. Some horse gets poisoned, or a Cow, or a dog, these are unavoidable incidences in such a large program, he said. Mr. Morley stated to me that the pesticide problem is getting to be a "hot-potato." He thinks his Office has eough trouble now without some news correspondent plastering headlines all over the papers that the Kern County Agricultural Commissioner is hiring crews of men to go out and poison Squirrels, [illegible] Shooting Condor. in their spare time. Something like this, Mr. Morley said, he would really worry about. From what I could gather, Mr. Morley feels that the loss of one or two Condor per year is a cheap price to pay for minimizing the numbers of California Ground Squirrels. He seems completely oriented towards economic values and seems to understand little of ecological responsibility or dangers that could accrue from unmindful tampering with complex factors that still remain unsolved by the most intelligent of men, or groups of men. 71 animals Pesticide problem a Potato food [illegible] Hosethie/Flax 720