This National Monument is between Page, Arizona and the Grand Canyon National Park. This is one of the areas where California Condors are being released into the wild and that was a prime reason for this visit. We had also hoped to go to "The Wave", an area famous to photographers which is also in this monument, but were not able to get permits to the area. They limit the number of people per day that can hike into the area. As for trying to see condors, we stopped in the late morning at the "Condor Viewing Site" at the southwestern corner of the monument, and did see one or two, but they were a very long way away. We talked to a wildlife biologist we met there and she said she was tracking and looking for a condor that had released the day before that was not flying very well so they wanted to recapture it. It turns out, it was condor #641, which had come from the Portland, Oregon Zoo breeding program, which is somewhere in Clackamas County (where I live). Anyway, we then drove to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, but came back in the late afternoon, for both better light on cliffs, and another chance to see condors. To our surprise when we got there, we saw a pickup along the road near the viewing site and someone (who we later found out was Edward Feltes, Condor Project Field Manager for The Peregrine Fund) out in the field following a condor that would hop/run from him when he approached and sometime take very briefly to the air. He had a net gun with him and finally got close enough to use it, but the condor got out under the net as the weeds held the net up off the ground. He finally was able to leap on it and capture it. He then carried it back to the pickup and put it in a small cage. He said they would put it back in their release facility and let it get stronger for about a week or so before trying to release it again.