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Hungry Valley.
California Condor
Eben McMullan
18 June 1963
hunting
To hungry valley in 1970 Commenced to disappear at
the time hunters commenced Coming into the her area
in good numbers. Mrs. Maxey also felt all other
forms of wildlife have suffered through the promiscuous
shooting of hunters. Mrs. Maxey told me that her husband,
who worked for the U.S. Forest Service for 15 years prior
to his death 25 Years ago, had brought in a dead
dead Condor
Condor so that she might see it. He had found it
death from what he thought was gunshot, up on
Fragier mountain where he operated the lookout
Stalion there. Her age and disability prevents
Mrs. Maxey from going out where she can look for
Condor. Therefore she has not seen Condor for several
years. "It's the hunters that have spoiled my outdoor
stated Mrs. Maxey.
G.W. Reynolds
G.W. Reynolds who lives in a cabin directly behind
the Maxey home has been in Hungry Valley for 30
years, He knows Condor and like Mrs. Maxey, thought
Condor much more common 25 years ago. In the Hungry
Valley area, than is the case today. He thinks Deer
hunters responsible for the disappearance of Condor
from Hungry Valley. G.W. Reynolds last saw Condor in
Hungry Valley last November. He then saw two Condor
in mid-morning flying north towards Labeac.
Some ten years ago Mr. Reynolds was living on the
Schmidt Ranch one mile to the south of the Maxey Ranch
where a horse belonging to Al Arndale died and was dragged
out on a flat 1/4 mile east of the Schmidt cabin
and in view of the cabin occupants. Two Condor
came to the horse carcass to feed as did two wild
dogs. One of these dogs was a small She
the other a tall rangy animal - Mr. Reynolds