p-220 -Continued- California Condor Eben McMillan 1 August 196 These hunters on private land are not only more respectful but they are also more successful. They know how to hunt. Ian and I accompanied Henry Melendy, in a Tejon Company four-wheel-drive vehicle over much of the Beck Property and roads into the back-country of the ranch. He showed us where the State of California is putting in road in preparation to commencement of construction on a tunnel that will carry Feather River water through the Tehama mountains and into the Los Angeles basin. This road, over which men and equipment will be transported to the tunnel sight, passes up canyons where giant valley oaks stood, but are now pushed over and being sawed into wood to clear the right-of-way—the in no instance considers the value of these trees. In fact the opposite seems the case. Mr. Melendy told us of an effort, by the State of California, to declare the roadway into the tunnel-site a public thoroughfare over which the public could must be prevented from traveling. Were this the case, one of the last privately managed feeding grounds of the Condor would be nullified. Melendy also described the problem of trespass trespass lands owned by Tejon Ranch from outside hunters. This remains one of the major problems in managing and controlling hunting on the ranch property under his care. Last hunting season he arrested more than 15 people for being unlawfully trespassing on Tejon Ranch property, as well as warning and evicting numerous people who he thought sufficiently responsible that they would return on the property to hunt again. While eating our lunch near the spring of wells in the canyon 1/2 mile below White Oak Lodge,