Tower Group Companies history

Audubon's official involvement with the condor dates back to 1939, when National Audubon Society helped support the doctoral research of Carl Koford, then a student at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1952, before much was known about captive-rearing of wildlife, the San Diego Zoo was granted permission to establish a captive breeding flock in an attempt to augment the fewer than 100 birds believed left in the wild.

Seeking to affect the behavior and attitudes of ranchers and rural residents within the range of the condor, Audubon hired "Condor Naturalist" John Borneman in 1964, who served as a sort of Condor Ambassador in the southern California backcountry.

In 1966, Philip Kotler had the first description of how managers could benefit from the powerful capabilities of the electronic computer as a management tool.

In 1969, Berson developed a marketing information system for marketing research.

In 1970, the Montgomery urban model was developed stressing the quantitative aspect of management by highlighting a data bank, a model bank, and a measurement statistics bank.

Is a relational database management system that evolved in the microcomputer environment since 1977.

At the time of his capture, this male was one of only 27 living California Condors, whose numbers had dipped to as low as 23 in 1981-82.

By 1986, all efforts were focused on removing the last remaining condors from the wild for the captive breeding program.

Eventually, the last wild condor, AC ("Adult Condor")-9 was captured in 1987.

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