Field notes, v1400
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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