California Condor Eben McMillan 15 June 1969 planted and cultivated; yes and sprayed—been sprayed—and probably fertilized in some places, is not producing the forage that could be grown on land that cultivated and sown to Oats, wheat, or barley. There seems to be areas here that may support reasonable stands of grass in the future but most of these areas that have been cleared of brush, only grew brush by virtue of the fact that brush was the only thing this type of poor rocky soil would produce and sustain. One can see the line between the brush and the grassland throughout this area is associated with the tilted formation of the land. Undoubtedly the areas where grass now grows were once level deep soils, and in the process of being tilted up on edge left strips of this soil exposed, while in between, the bedrock pushed up to the surface and remains exposed. These areas of bedrock are where the brush now grows. To assume that they can be changed into productive soils comparable to that where the grass now grows seems poor thinking and planning to me. At least one thing is certain, that being the price of establishing this vegetative cover on what was once brushland is going to be so expensive that cows grazing one to the acre throughout the permitted season would never make this thing a paying proposition. It is beginning to look as though this is a plaything for the Forest Service to keep busy at between five seasons, were it not so expensive a proposition and so vulnerable to the development of payola propositions—