Editing California condor (section)

==Historic range==
[[File:Sonomamtneflank.jpg|thumb|California oak savanna on the east flank of [[Sonoma Mountain]]]]
At the time of [[human settlement of the Americas]], the California condor was widespread across North America; condor bones from the late Pleistocene have been found at the [[Cutler Fossil Site]] in southern Florida.<ref>{{cite book|last=Carr|first=Robert S.|title=Digging Miami|year=2012|publisher=University Press of Florida|location=Gainesville, Florida|isbn=978-0-8130-4206-0|page=32}}</ref> However, at the end of the [[last glacial period]] came the [[Quaternary extinction event|extinction]] of the [[megafauna]] that led to a subsequent reduction in range and population. Five hundred years ago, the California condor roamed across the [[American Southwest]] and [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]]. Faunal remains of condors have been found documented in [[Arizona]],<ref name=c2/> [[Nevada]],<ref name=c3/> [[New Mexico]],<ref name=c4/><ref name=c5/> and Texas.<ref name=c6/> The [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] of the early 19th century reported on their sighting and shooting of California condors near the mouth of the [[Columbia River]].<ref name=majors>{{Cite book|last = Majors|first = Harry M.|title = Exploring Washington|publisher = Van Winkle Publishing Co|year = 1975|page = 114|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CoWrPQAACAAJ|isbn = 978-0-918664-00-6|access-date = October 23, 2015|archive-date = January 2, 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200102082345/https://books.google.com/books?id=CoWrPQAACAAJ|url-status = live}}</ref><ref name=time>{{Cite magazine|title=Lewis & Clark: The Ultimate Adventure: California Condor|url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1997823_1997846_1998339,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022120224/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1997823_1997846_1998339,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 22, 2010| magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=July 8, 2002}}</ref>

In the 1970s, two Condor Observation Sites were established in the [[Santa Clara River Valley]] to host hopeful birders interested in the endangered species: one about 15 miles north of [[Fillmore, California]], near the [[Sespe Wildlife Area]] of [[Los Padres National Forest]], and one atop [[Mount Pinos]], "accessible from a dirt road off the highway in from [[Gorman, California|Gorman]]".<ref name="sunset">
{{cite book
 |date=1974
 |title=Sunset Travel Guide to Southern California
 |location=Menlo Park, Calif.
 |publisher=Lane Publishing Co. 
 |page= 150
 |sbn=376-06754-3
}}
</ref>