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Glenmville
P.370
California Condor Eben McMillan 9 October 1963
irresponsible group that should be controlled more effectively.
He feels that with the numbers of deer hunters increasing each year that
the problems between them and private land owners will become more
acute. He feels deer hunters will become more powerful in their demands to
be allowed to hunt on private lands.
Mrs. Evalyn Farnsworth had seen no condor lately. A cow belonging
to her neighbor had died up the canyon above her house, last week,
from what was thought to be the effects of a deer hunter's bullet.
No condor, nor even a buzzard, came to feed on the carcass of this
cow. She said the last buzzards went south about the last two
days of September.
I telephoned Marion Vincent from the Woody Fire Guard Station.
Marion said that the only condor he had seen of late was two
birds circling over his house on August 2, 1963. He is moving
his cows down from the upper ranch next week to calve out at his home
place. Only seven or eight calves have been dropped so far. Marion
thinks condor will come in when his cows commence calving heavily.
The man who works as relief lookout at Blue Ridge Lookout
Northeast of Woody said in a telephone conversation that he had
not seen condor in the area of Blue Ridge Lookout for two years.
Mrs. Jim Holmes, a young lady who has lived in Poso Flats
between Granite Station and Greenhorn Ridge, has never seen a condor,
but knows they are around and would very much like to see one.
She told me that condor had been seen near the Jim Ben Williams home
recently.
Mrs. Smith, who lives in Poso Flats and has been living there
since 1933, professes a knowledge and an interest in birds of-