The Region - News from Jan. 13, 1987

The federal Fish and Wildlife Service said it has completed the $3.9-million purchase of 11,360 acres in rugged southwest Kern County to form the Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge and re-establish the endangered California condor in the wild. Most of the money, $3.5 million, went for the Hudson Ranch. The plan is to capture the only two condors still free, add them to the 25 birds in a breeding program at zoos and to begin releasing condors in the refuge after 1990.