California Condor Eben McMillan 6 November 1963 Rain fell during the early morning hours and was continuing at daylight so I put my bed in the pickup which I had parked out on the flat to the North of highway 466 about one mile East and one mile North of Edison, Kern County, California last evening after I had left the home of Henry McKenzie. I drove to Cantil on the Mojave desert and had breakfast in the rain as showers were also falling out there. Louie Yribarren, the foreman for M and R Sheep Company, at Cantil, said he did not think that Condor ever come to the alfalfa fields at Cantil to feed on the numerous sheep that die there, there being upwards to Ten Thousand Sheep on the alfalfa fields, there, in lambing Season; which by the way is just now getting into full force. Louie stated that Buzzards remain around the alfalfa fields at Cantil all Year around. I saw no Buzzards about this area today but the inclement weather could have had a discouraging effect on them today. Louie Yribarren went into detail to describe to me the problem they have at Cantil with hunters during the dove season. He said they actually swarm over the place, knock down fences, tramp through crops and shoot everything in sight. Mr. Yribarren feels this is the fault of the Fish and Game Department who are only interested in making arrests for infringements of the Game laws, and never bother to enforce trespass, or damage laws. He thinks that the State Fish and Game Department should acquire tracts of land on which hunting could be managed and make the hunting public support their own Shooting Preserves rather than turning them loose on private landowners who have nothing to gain and everything to lose from the experience. P-422 Cantil