California condor survey field notes, v1477
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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-