California condor survey field notes, v1476
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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.