The last scientifically documented sighting of a wild condor in Washington state occurred in 1897. Can they come back?

While the population of captive condors has remained steady, the wild population has slowly increased in recent years.

At sunrise on a fall day in 1897, the morning train from Coulee City to Spokane departed on schedule. C. Hart Merriam rode with a field notebook in his lap, noting the bright yellow flowers of blazing star that still bloomed among the sage and bitterbrush of the shrub-steppe. He tracked ridges of scabland basalt across the countryside, then waited patiently as the train stopped in small towns to pick up carloads

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