Show Exit The Condors Much has been written in recent y years rs about the whooping whooping whooping whoop whoop- ing crane and whether this giant bird can survive Less has been heard about the great Condor which is now down to sixty or eighty in number in the one California area where this great bird nests and aid reproduces THEREFORE the recent action of Secretary of the Interior Walter J. J Hickle in calling a halt to the letting of further oil and gas leases in this area is to be applaud applaud- ed In 1951 the Sespe Condor Sanctuary in California was established in an effort to help the birds survive and even reproduce Yet only eleven attempts to nest inthe inthe in inthe the last three years have been made but five being successful successful suc suc- even though tighter restrictions have been placed on oil company blasting at atlease atlease atlease lease sites in the belief that such noise might cause the birds to leave nests THE NUMBER of Condors known to exist today is lower lower lower low low- er than nineteen years ago when the sanctuary was established The federal federa government is therefore justified justified justified justi justi- fied in making every ever effort to save the Condor an even more romantic species than the publicized much-publicized whooping crane |