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any large birds like Buzzards or Eagles said he
did not see any for if he had he would have taken
a shot at them. Stopped at Grade Valley Camp, three
deer had been brought into this camp by noon.
about 300 hunters were out of this Camp.
at Grade Valley Camp I chatted with six young fellows
from Los Angeles who had hunted this morning without
seeing a buck deer. I told them that I had been out and
that I did not even see a Buzzard to shoot at. These
fellows informed me that had I shot a Buzzard, or
any hawk or Owl, that I could have been arrested
for all hawks and Owls are protected. Continuous
shooting went on about Grade valley Camp during the
hour I spent there. Two young fellows from Los
Angeles who with their wives and small children were
camped in Grade Valley Camp, had, the night previous,
hiked to the top of a nearby mountain and hunted
from there this morning without success. They would have
Shot a Buzzard or an Eagle had they seen one. So they
admitted.
From Grade Valley I drove out to Lockwood Valley and
on to Lake of the Woods, in Cuddy Valley, where the
U.S. Forest Service and California Division of Fish and
Game had an information station for deer hunters,
as well as a place where these hunting licenses and
Deer Tags, Could be purchased, and Validated. David
Zeiner of Game Manager 1 of Region 5, Calif. Fish
and Game Biologist was on hand aging all
the Deer that hunters brought in to be validated. A
Continuous crowd of outlookers and hunters were
about this station most of the Time. a Bill Harper,
of U.S. Forest Service, and who, in the beginning, was the
Condor Warden for the Audubon Society and the U.S.