The Region - News from Jan. 31, 1986

A federal judge in Washington has postponed until next week a decision on whether to allow the government to take the last five California condors out of the wild into captivity to breed. U.S. District Judge Barrington Parker extended a restraining order barring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from removing the condors from national forest lands near Ventura. The National Audubon Society sued the Fish and Wildlife Service to prevent capture of the condors, said to be the last five living in their natural habitat. The government wants to place the birds in zoos at San Diego and Los Angeles and breed them to maintain the endangered species.