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California Condor
Eben McMillan
8 August 1964
42 Condor feeding on the carcass of a cow near Lebec at the time
Koford was making his study of Condor. Reynolds has not seen Condor
for several years although he patrols the Santa Clara River
Valley in Southern Ventura County and spoke of being into the
Boy Scout Camp in the Sespe River. It seems strange that one who
had seen Condor and been implicated in the research project on
Condor that Koford had done, would decline in interest in
the wildlife of his area whereby he would fail to see Condor for
ten years even though he would be patrolling an area over which
Condor welfare. Condor must fly at least once a week. It appears evident that
Condor welfare is not now, nor has it ever been, a subject of concern
among personnel of the Department of Fish and Game of California.
At Lake of the Woods I also met Ed Green who is Unit Manager
of the San Diego unit of the California Department of Fish and
Game as Game Manager. He had been sent to Mt. Pinos district
of U.S. Forest Service to take age, weight and condition
checks of deer that were brought to the Check Station in
Lake of the Woods. He told me of talking to a person
in Pauma Valley, San Diego County, who runs a grocery store
Near the post office in Pauma Valley, who said he had observed
what he thought sure was a Condor feeding with Turkey
Vultures near Pauma Valley about 1954. Green could not recall
the name of this person but said he was an egg collector and as such,
would probably know what Condor looked like and could identify one.
I drove up Frazier Mountain to the upper Orcutt Flow hunters
Camp seeing many hunters along the way most of whom were
walking along the road or near it. At the upper hunter overflow