California Condor Eben McMillan 4 November 1963 Cory Ellingbo whose mailing address is Star Route, Box 67 Lancaster, California, told me that on the private land that he supervises in the area near Gorman, California, he is continually harassed by hunters who tear down NO Trespassing signs he erects, and breaks the locks from gates which he locks to prevent entry into private lands that harbor field crops or livestock which he does not want disturbed. His neighbor on Pine Creek, a Mr. Bill Schmidt, had an Angus Bull shot dead last year and a hind quarter of this animal was skinned out and taken. Cory thinks most hunters are both ignorant of their acts and exceedingly irresponsible also. He doubts that they can be educated, but does feel that the Fish and Game Department only encourage further depredations and misuse of public property by ISSUING these people a license to hunt without any demand of them that they conduct themselves properly. Mr. and Mrs. James Lacy who live at Gold Hill enroute to Alamo Mountain from the highway 99 entrances, were at this cafe, in Gorman, for dinner. Mr. Ellingbo introduced me to them and informed me that Mr. Lacy was Fire Prevention Technician for the U.S. Forest Service and patrolled the Alamo Mountain area during the hunting and fire seasons. I inquired of Mr. Lacy if he thought hunters in the Alamo Mountain area would shoot Condor should the opportunity present itself. He thought they would not. Mr. Lacy thinks that because Alamo Mountain is farther removed from the highway, that a better class of hunters frequents this area. He nevertheless thought it a poor idea for anyone to perch on a limb dressed like a Condor, during deer hunting season.