California Condor Ebendmillan 15 June 1964 We were up at sunrise. The day broke clear and warm with a gentle west wind blowing. A heavy fog filled all the fingers of the lower Sisquoc and Santa Ynez river drainages up to about 500 feet elevation. The air was remarkably clear. We drove to Northwest corner of Big Pine Mountain where I left Ian who drove on towards the crossroads and to inspect the deer carcass he had left in a saddle that overlooks Bluff Cueva. I hiked up the road way that follows the Northwest Corner ridge of Big Pine Mountain to the summit. Fresh tracks of a sow bear and her cub were following the same roadway I was traveling, after I had gotten near the summit. A pair of Pinyon Nutchatch were observed carrying nesting material into a very small hole in a dead pine stump. I photographed Sierra Madre ridge - Sisquoc river basin and San Rafael mountain as well as the Santa Ynez river basin that was pretty well fogged in. Meeting Ian at designated place we drove to Santa Barbara Potrero. Ian said that a Bear had dragged the deer carcass away from where we had left it sometime during the night. We inspected the Re-veg operation that the Forest Service is presently promoting mostly of which lies between Santa Barbara and Salisbury Potreros. There seems to be evidence that the Forest Service is setting themselves into a bad situation here. What acreage there is that was planted and cultivated this last year, or even last year, is doing poorly and the areas that were planted first are drying up. Even though no cattle have ever been allowed to graze on these areas that were cleared of brush -