California Condor Eben McMillan 26 September 1963 This Station attendant thought drastic measures should have been instituted against this rancher to make sure such inhuman activities would be discouraged in the future. A Salesman at the Ford Motor Agency in Exeter discussed this same trial with me and declared that he could not have served on the jury for he was definitely opinionated against the defendant for having abused his animals and over-grazed his range. At 12:30 P.M. while having my lunch, in the Exeter City Parks, Ten Turkey Buzzards sailed over heading Southward. I also saw several buzzards circling above the highway as I drove from Exeter to Visalia about 1:30 p.m. I stopped at the Tulare County Humaine Society Station West of Visalia on Highway 99. Mrs. Ann Gift Dula, who seems to be the moving force behind the Humaine movement in Tulare County, and who promoted the over-grazing and cruelty to animal case referred to formally, discussed matters of this trial, and matters leading up to its culmination, freely with me. It seems that bringing cases into court to prove cruelty to animals on rangelands is nothing new in Tulare County. Mrs. Dula thought of at least six such cases that have been brought to trial by Tulare County Humaine Society within the last Eight Years. This last case is the only one they have lost. This most recent case of animal cruelty by the rancher has the culmination of more than a year of investigation in which it was found the defendant, the son of a wealthy Portuguese farmer in the Exeter area, had rented a 500 acre range to the East of Exeter and on this property had pastured an average of —