Distribution
Historic: Southern Oregon and British Columbia, Canada, south along the Pacific coast of North America to Baja California, Mexico, east to the Grand Canyon, and southeastern Utah and Arizona.
Endangered: Mid 1980s—Only wild population was 27 individuals restricted to a small area in the coastal mountain ranges of central and southern California.
Current: Two wild, self-sustaining populations in California—one along the central coast and the other in the mountains of southern California and northern Baja California, Mexico. Two smaller experimental/nonessential populations—one in northern Arizona and Utah and the other in Baja California. Also, birds in captivity in California, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as part of the California condor recovery program.