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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