California condor survey field notes, v1476
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P-218 -continued- California Condor Eben Mcmillan 1 August 1963 incompasued and owned by Tejon Ranch is divided into several sections each of which are either Contracted out to different groups of hunting privi else held for the hunting privileges of Stockholders-- Company, Employees of the Company, Renters and Tenants of Company Lands, friends or business assoc of the Company, at [illegible] inside the Tejo Ranch boundaries and those groups or fri who employees-owners and leasees are allowed to bi in with them as guests. Mr. Melendy was very frank in answering our questions. His knowledge of the area and problems seems quite well developed considering the short time he has been an employee of the Tejon Ranch Company. It seems evident that Henry Melendy was hired by the Teo Ranch Company to take over the matter of managing game animals on the ranch property as well as to Straite out and supervise bring under his supervision the hunt privileges on the ranch that had become out of hand thou the Company having leased areas of the ranch property to certain groups who in payment for hunting privileges we supposed to Police and manage all hunting perso Personal as well as the game species on the particu areas ascribed to their care and use by the Tejon Ruch Company, according to Melendy, this program has not Turned well. Some of the groups, or users, disciplined themselves ge but in the main this program of making each group responsi for managing and policing themselves degraded, in time, to whe the Tejon Ranch Co. had to make a change. The new program that is now in development, under the management of Henry Melendy, has returned the responsibility of policing and management to the Tejon Ranch. The use of a particular section of the ranch for hunting, unless an associate of the Ranch Company, Now are charged a fe