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California Condor
Eben McMillan
10 July 1968
Hugh Smith has no favorable comments for hunters, particularly
deer hunters, who he said, have no respect for others rights
or property, and he feels they will kill or shoot at anything
within sight of the road that is moving. He thinks deer
hunters would shoot at any large bird that might come
within shooting range of their guns.
Remic Albrettie, who also runs cattle in summer, to
the south of Hugh and Charlotte Smith, came to the Smith
camp in the late evening, told me of seeing Condor
and Buzzards feeding in the valleys below Woody on
Kangaroo Rats. These scavengers would walk about
picking up the poisoned rats that lay quite
thickly on the ground after having died from
eating barley that had been treated with Strychnine
poison.