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california condor
Eben McNillan
27 January 1964
At 10:15 A.M. we stopped to interview three men who were
repairing the County Road that goes from Woody to Famosa. Richard
Kambricks, one of these men, who lives in Glenville, knows Condor,
and has seen them many times. He thinks this is a bit early
to see Condor in the Granite Station area. He thinks Condor came
into this area in the springtime. Mr. Kambrick said he saw 34 Condor
about four years ago at the foot of Battleshulee Grade in the
Rancheria area at the southwest end of Greenhorn Mountain. After
questioning him concerning the seeing of the 34 Condor he then said
it was some number about that figure. Kambricks thought the Rancheria
area the best place to see Condor with the hills below Granite Station
running a close second.
Darrell Degler, another one of the men working on the County
Road here, and who also lives in Glenville, said he saw two
Condor last year in the valley below Granite Station where
Carl West lives. Mr. Degler also knows Condor and has
seen them off and on over the years in the Granite
Station. A. Mr. Cresio Driver was the third member of this
trio who work at maintaining the roads in this area for Kern
County and all live in Glenville. They will all be on the
lookout for Condor and leave word with Mrs. Evalyn
Jansworth should they see anything unusual.
We then stopped at the home of Mrs. Russell Lawrence
Moore that is located near the road in the area where the
Poso Creek Oilfield crosses the Woody-Famosa Roadway,
Mrs. Moore immediately informed me that she knew Condor
very well and that her husband had seen Condor to the west of -