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P-430
Rome Valley
California Condor
Eben McMillan
25 November
Sespe river drainage. I an took photographs of this situation that was
being added too by a man and woman who had parked their automobile
at the edge of this dirt road and were in a draw, about 50 yards from
this road shooting at cans and bottles while consuming bottles of
beer, each were so doing in between shots. The short draws that come down
into the drainage that follows this road eastward are literally
filled with broken glass and cans of all sort that have been shot through
so many times that even some of the cans are severed into separate
cans. No signs are in evidence that would tend to warn anyone that
this practice was not lawful, nor is there any effort made by
anyone, or any agency of the Government, to clean this mess up that
is not only an eyesore but also contributes to unregulated shooting
in an area where Condor are frequently known to pass such as the
line of flight from [illegible] Point to Toga Topa ridge and Hines Peak.
We stopped in [illegible] @jai at the U.S. Forest Service Station and were told
by a Mr. Righetti who resides on the grounds that Mr. Parkinson was not in, we
availed Mr. Righetti of our plans to go up on hopper rim from the Spring Canyon trail,
and drove to Fillmore, where we stopped and checked at the home of Jack Gains, whom
we were told, by his wife, [illegible] was working and would not be back at the house
until after 5:00 P.M. We made our plans known to Mrs. Gains with the knowledge
that she would tell him of such when he returned from work in the evening,
and make our way up Sespe Valley along the wildlife area corridor road.
There was evidence along the Sespe Valley Road where it passes through the
area where the recent fire, of this fall, had burned that the past rain
had brought great amounts of aggregate down from the burned area
onto this road. A D-8 Bulldozer had been engaged in clearing this
[illegible] accumulation from the roadway so that vehicles could traverse the