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california condor Eben McMillan 15 July 1964
up trails and roads while hunting for deer. The California
Division of Fish and Game are also held to blame for this
hunting fiasco. It seems that some years ago the Sinton
entered into an agreement with the Division of Fish and
Game whereby hunting would be allowed on their lands
providing it was done under strict regulation and a
moderate amount of use was permitted. After the
second season of deer hunting the Dept. of Fish and
Game lost interest while the area became literally
overrun with irresponsible hunters. They are now looking
for a solution to the troublesome remaining problems
caused by irresponsible hunters.
Returning home I stopped at Pozo Guard Station of
U.S. Forest Service and chatted with Tim Blake and
Ray Barba. Blake knows Condor and mentioned observations
that Ian already had turned in to him from the Forest
Service office in San Luis Obispo. Blake also acknowledged
that deer are scarce everywhere in the Pozo area. He
thought were the Division of Fish & Game people to drop
salt pellets that contained material to inhibit parasites
in deer that it might increase the population.
Mrs. Evalyn Farnsworth called at 11:00 A.M. stating
that she had seen a Condor, in company with several Turkey
vultures and crows, at 9:45 A.M. circling low over their
property called the Fig Tree field that is on north side of Capeces
Highway about 6 miles northwest by west of Woody- Kern G. Gul.
That was today she saw this Condor. This place had been-