San Felipe Ranch, Santa Clara Co. Aug 12 - 14 1977 (cont.) Three-year olds, and hanked back to the big crop of just healthy game of 1974. That was a wet year with lush vegetation and I predicted that we would see that age class prominently among the bucks of 1976 and 1977, which indeed was the case. This year at last, however, have been very poor for game viewing. They are generally small, rough haired, some still in spots, and survival is due to be poor. I have never seen the gorge so sterile as it was this very dry spring. Bill and Alve have sold all their cows except for a little herd of Santa Gertrudis at a bunch of Angus in one pasture. Stripping the range of livestock is one good reason they have a good deer population. Not many ranchers could afford & do it. Besides deer we saw the following wildlife in the three half-days: 4 bobcats 1 coyote 1 racoon 1 golden eagle 1 prairie falcon 5 or 6 coiver [illegible] quail, one only half grown. Lots of mourning doves