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Gymnogyps californianus
28 January 1946 San Francisco, Calif.
regarding cardors with John Baker, Pemberton,
Crainmiller and FC Lincoln.
T. Wake has flown over Napper Basin in a
private plane, taken pictures of it from the air
and seen cardors from the plane. Such sight
seeing may well add to the disturbance of
the cardors in the future.
1 February 1946 Porterville, Califi.
Obtained address of Ross C. Welch, game
warden (lives on W. Putnam, Porterville;
phone 499, box 678) from Chamber of Com-
mmerce. Found also that Jim Vincent, cattle-
man, lives near Jack Ranch (Porey P.O.)
in the White River area. Both those men were
mentioned in S.F. Chronicle article of 30 March
1945, Vincent supposedly having found an
injured cardor & killed it for specimen
purposes. Next went to USFS headquarters
in Porterville and talked with the ranger &
other men, & showed them cardor photos.
They had only a vague memory of the
cardor incident & practically no knowledge of
cardor identification. They said there had
been lookout reports from Blue Ridge and
Oak Flat lookouts in the past, but
none in last couple of years. They