bitter water

Bitterwater Valley was once the primary habitat of the giant California Condor. Around 1946, DDT poison was introduced throughout that area to kill coyotes, prairie dogs, mountain lions, and any animal that ate crops or posed a threat to ranch or farm animals. Condors are of vultures and therefore only eat animals that are already dead. As the Condors ate the dead killed by DDT, they too vanished, and the once paradise teeming with abundant life became lifeless except for few a species of birds and insects.