California Condor Eben McMillan 15 July 1964 Iam and I left his place at 7:15 A.m., heading for The Arenales Ranch east of Pozo, S.L.D., Co. Cal. We passed up Shell Creek to Highway 58-(The number of this highway has been changed recently from State Highway 178 to Highway 58.) The morning was clear, calm and moderately warm. We saw no deer until after passing up Salinas River to the area above American Canyon Public Camp. Borrowing Jim Sinton's Jeep we drove to east slope of Pilitas Mt. where we left Jeep and hiked towards top of Mt. following Forest Service Telephone line along which Murphey Chaney had told us of seeing what he took to be a Condor. Even though we searched this line from the top of Pilitas Mt. to within a mile of the Arenales Ranch House we found no sign of the carcass; Chaney must have seen the big bird carcass here about two years ago. I suppose many things could have destroyed, or carried it away, before now. We met Cliff Hudson who is working at Arenales Ranch, He is one of the Cuyama Valley Hudsons, but had no recent Condor observations worthy of putting down. We understand from Jim Sinton, Fred Took and Jack Sinton that deer are very scarce in the Arenales area. The Sintons are very dissatisfied with the way the U.S. Forest Service is managing, and promoting, deer hunting that brings an influx of undesirable hunters, into and over their private lands on Tote Gate and Teepees that disturb the Sinton Cattle and fear