July 2, 1969 (12 pages)

Pe ns ‘sixth consecutive antelope hunt, . Fish and Game and the U.S. ’ in the dead birds are toxic and — _ pected to adopt fawns, accordd Beel np ate i nt nt RN ease tty ind Game . news, calendar . today. The aerial census by DFG biologists, the sixth this year, was made June 2. along the coast from Seaside to Cayucos, Two sion at a-meeting inSanFraneatflier flights had resulted in cisco Friday (June 27), high counts of 983 and 931 otters Commission President James under similarly good conditions. Y. Camp of Shafter announced Mel Odemar, DFG marine bithe meeting will begin at 9 a.m, -Ologist. in .charge of the sea in Room 1194 State Building, otter project, attributed the high 455 Golden Gate Avenue. counts in January, March and The Department of Fish and June to three factors: favorable Game recommended 50 special aerial observation conditions; antlerless, either-sex and buck concentration of otters on a deer hunts with 17,860 permits, relatively small kelp canopy beUpon receipt of the DFG's cause kelp beds had undergone recommendations, the commis4 Seasonal reduction in size; sion set hearings in each of the and increased efficiency of counties involved. Commission2erial survey techniques. — ers who served as hearing offiThe counts compare with a cers will make their recomhigh of 660 otters in 1968 and mendations to thecommissionat 537 in 1967, the meeting. DFG biologists are cooperAlpine, Calaveras, Glenn and ating with a team from the UniMadera Counties have vetoed § versity of California at Santa hunts and several other counties © Cruz on the censuses and both have requested modification or teams agree the count of 1,014 cancellation of hunts, is a minimum population figure. Also to be considered are two Counts are being made from proposed special elk hunts--in Shore by the UC crew, andthere the Owens Valley of Inyo County is a high degree of correlation and the Shasta Lake area of with the DFG's aerial surveys. Shasta County--and the state's Dr. Richard Peterson, assistant professor of biology at UC. The DFG has proposed 85 Santa Cruz, heads the UC team permits for the Owens ValleyElk Which is working under a grant Hunts and 100 for the Shasta from the Owings. Foundation, hunt, and 315 permits for surplus buck antelope in the northeastern corner of the state. COMMISSION WILL SET 1969-70 SPECIAL HUNTS Special deer hunts for 196970 will be adopted by the California Fish and Game Commisthaniel Owings, who alsoformed a volunteer group known as Friends of the Sea Otter which — is cooperating in the study. INTENSIFY DUCK BOTULISM The DFG is experimenting CONTROL WORK with sea otters on a small scale The California Department of to develop techniques for handling, transporting and tagging Bureau of Sport Fisheries and them. The objective of this work Wildlife revealed today that is to allow the department to losses of water-fowl tobotulism extend he range of sea otters are occurring at several locain California and to relieve the tions in the southern San Joapressure on their: food supply quin Valley. in areas of heavy otter concenThe most severe losses are tration. occurring at two locations in To date, five sea otters have Tulare Lake in Kings County been tagged and moved, and two where workers have picked up others are held in captivity at nearly. 3,000 dead birds so far . the Stanford Research Institute. this ‘season, of which over 2,500 . The UCSC team was able to folwere’ ducks, The rate of mor-. low one tagged otter for two tality has increased in the past days.: 10 days. ‘Losses have also Once believed near extinction reached nearly 700 birds at as a result of their widespread Buena Vista Lake where the slaughter by fur traders in the losses . were predominantly ate 18th and 19th centuries, — coots, A third area just west the California sea otter herd of the Kern National Wildlife has increased slowly during the Refuge in Kern county wasfound — past 50 years. to be toxic and nearly 250 birds The California sea otter has have been picked up in this area been declared a rare and enin the last few days. : dangered species and is a fully DFG bacteriologists have deprotected animal under both termined that the maggots found state and federal law, WILDLIFE AGENCIES have stressed the importance , of picking up the dead birds as 1969-70 HUNTING a means of preventing the bird . LICENSES AVAILABLE losses from becoming much more extensive. The two agencies are using five shallow draft airboats seven days a week’ in a concerted effort to remove the dead birds as rapidly as possible. Department personnel have pointed out that relatively high summer losses are expected because of the large number of nesting waterfowl in the flooded areas Game reports that 1969-70 California hunting licenses are now available from DFG offices and more than 3,000 license agents throughout the state, The basic $4 license entitles hunters to pursue most upland game, but separate tags are required for deer ($2) and bear ($1), and a federal stamp is required to hunt migratory waley. terfowl. brbataas fie we hhcnt Current licenses may be reDON'T ADOPT newed by purchasing a new validating stamp, or hunters may purchase a new license if they have moved or their old license was lost or is in poor condition. Current licenses are valid through June 30. ‘ABANDONED' FAWNS Each year at this time, a number of well meaning but misguided people can be exing to the Department of Fish and Game, founded by Mr. and Mrs. Na. Wednesday, July 2, 1969 THIS LOGGING SITE in Tuolumne county has been donated for use as a Scout camp by William J. Pendola, member of a family which is well known in the Golden Empire. Pendolas are active in Yuba River Lumber Co. and Brunswick Timber Products Corp. William Pendola is the president of Pickering Lumber Co. The Department of Fish and People who pick up these and other young animals in the belief they need assistance almost always are creating problems for themselves and for the deer, the DFG says. Here are three things to remember if you should come across a fawn on your outdoor travels: 1, Young deer require special care and feeding which the average person cannot provide. 2. If the animal should survive, it can become a bothersome and at times a. dangerous pet. Each year the Department learns of persons injured or killed by "pet" deer. 3, And last but not least,-it's against the law to possess a deer, even a young one. Remember, the DFG says, even if a fawn appears to have been. abandoned by its mother, the chances are that she is close CENSUS TALLIES 1,014 SEA OTTERS A census has disclosed a count of 1,014 sea otters along the Central California coast, indicating a dramatic comeback. of the rare animals, the Department of Fish and Game reported Classified Ads, little fellows with the big pulling power the . Actions taken during long planning session The Nevada County Planning Commission conducted two controversial use permit public hearings that took two hours apiece and took care of the following more routine business at a. meeting which opened at 7:30 Monday night and adjourned after 1 a.m. Tuesday: morning. ~Recommended that the board of supervisors rezone property presently within a "U" (unclassified district)“on. Banner Lava Cap Road to "R-1-B-20" (one family residential with building sites to be a minimum of approximately. one half acre), Said property is unofficially known as The Benuzzi Tract. —Conducted a first public hearing and set a second hearing for July 14 on a planning commission resolution to establish an "R-1" (one family residential) district in an unclassified district in Birch Meadows Annex. —Accepted, subject to the Advisory Review Committee's recommendations, a tentative map of Donner View, 10 lots on the Donner Lake Access Road, Harris and Horman are owners and FREE ESTIMATES subdividers. —Conducted a first public hearing on a planning commission resolution to hold public hearings to amend the subdivision section of the county code relating to minimum building site areas, and minimum average lot requirements in an "R1" district; and to amend the section of the code relating tothe number of public hearings required to amend said ordinance. The second public hearing is slated for July 14, —Approved a tentative map of Ponderosa Palisades Unit No. 4, 60 lots south of Truckee. C. S. Beavers is owner and subdivider. —Approved tentative map of Alta Sierra Estates Nineteen, 52 lots and two parcels on Dog Gar and Alta Sierra Drive. Nevada County Title Co. is owner and Lakeworld Development Company is subdivider. —Approved amended tentative map of Deer Creek Park Unit No. 2, 230 lots east of Nevada City. Tierra Alta Development Company is owner and subdivider. THE BEST MOVE OU. EVER MADE 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE Phone 273-2206 i?

Pe ns ‘sixth consecutive antelope hunt, . Fish and Game and the U.S. ’ in the dead birds are toxic and — _ pected to adopt fawns, accordd Beel np ate i nt nt RN ease tty ind Game . news, calendar . today. The aerial census by DFG biologists, the sixth this year, was made June 2. along the coast from Seaside to Cayucos, Two sion at a-meeting inSanFraneatflier flights had resulted in cisco Friday (June 27), high counts of 983 and 931 otters Commission President James under similarly good conditions. Y. Camp of Shafter announced Mel Odemar, DFG marine bithe meeting will begin at 9 a.m, -Ologist. in .charge of the sea in Room 1194 State Building, otter project, attributed the high 455 Golden Gate Avenue. counts in January, March and The Department of Fish and June to three factors: favorable Game recommended 50 special aerial observation conditions; antlerless, either-sex and buck concentration of otters on a deer hunts with 17,860 permits, relatively small kelp canopy beUpon receipt of the DFG's cause kelp beds had undergone recommendations, the commis4 Seasonal reduction in size; sion set hearings in each of the and increased efficiency of counties involved. Commission2erial survey techniques. — ers who served as hearing offiThe counts compare with a cers will make their recomhigh of 660 otters in 1968 and mendations to thecommissionat 537 in 1967, the meeting. DFG biologists are cooperAlpine, Calaveras, Glenn and ating with a team from the UniMadera Counties have vetoed § versity of California at Santa hunts and several other counties © Cruz on the censuses and both have requested modification or teams agree the count of 1,014 cancellation of hunts, is a minimum population figure. Also to be considered are two Counts are being made from proposed special elk hunts--in Shore by the UC crew, andthere the Owens Valley of Inyo County is a high degree of correlation and the Shasta Lake area of with the DFG's aerial surveys. Shasta County--and the state's Dr. Richard Peterson, assistant professor of biology at UC. The DFG has proposed 85 Santa Cruz, heads the UC team permits for the Owens ValleyElk Which is working under a grant Hunts and 100 for the Shasta from the Owings. Foundation, hunt, and 315 permits for surplus buck antelope in the northeastern corner of the state. COMMISSION WILL SET 1969-70 SPECIAL HUNTS Special deer hunts for 196970 will be adopted by the California Fish and Game Commisthaniel Owings, who alsoformed a volunteer group known as Friends of the Sea Otter which — is cooperating in the study. INTENSIFY DUCK BOTULISM The DFG is experimenting CONTROL WORK with sea otters on a small scale The California Department of to develop techniques for handling, transporting and tagging Bureau of Sport Fisheries and them. The objective of this work Wildlife revealed today that is to allow the department to losses of water-fowl tobotulism extend he range of sea otters are occurring at several locain California and to relieve the tions in the southern San Joapressure on their: food supply quin Valley. in areas of heavy otter concenThe most severe losses are tration. occurring at two locations in To date, five sea otters have Tulare Lake in Kings County been tagged and moved, and two where workers have picked up others are held in captivity at nearly. 3,000 dead birds so far . the Stanford Research Institute. this ‘season, of which over 2,500 . The UCSC team was able to folwere’ ducks, The rate of mor-. low one tagged otter for two tality has increased in the past days.: 10 days. ‘Losses have also Once believed near extinction reached nearly 700 birds at as a result of their widespread Buena Vista Lake where the slaughter by fur traders in the losses . were predominantly ate 18th and 19th centuries, — coots, A third area just west the California sea otter herd of the Kern National Wildlife has increased slowly during the Refuge in Kern county wasfound — past 50 years. to be toxic and nearly 250 birds The California sea otter has have been picked up in this area been declared a rare and enin the last few days. : dangered species and is a fully DFG bacteriologists have deprotected animal under both termined that the maggots found state and federal law, WILDLIFE AGENCIES have stressed the importance , of picking up the dead birds as 1969-70 HUNTING a means of preventing the bird . LICENSES AVAILABLE losses from becoming much more extensive. The two agencies are using five shallow draft airboats seven days a week’ in a concerted effort to remove the dead birds as rapidly as possible. Department personnel have pointed out that relatively high summer losses are expected because of the large number of nesting waterfowl in the flooded areas Game reports that 1969-70 California hunting licenses are now available from DFG offices and more than 3,000 license agents throughout the state, The basic $4 license entitles hunters to pursue most upland game, but separate tags are required for deer ($2) and bear ($1), and a federal stamp is required to hunt migratory waley. terfowl. brbataas fie we hhcnt Current licenses may be reDON'T ADOPT newed by purchasing a new validating stamp, or hunters may purchase a new license if they have moved or their old license was lost or is in poor condition. Current licenses are valid

through June 30. ‘ABANDONED' FAWNS Each year at this time, a number of well meaning but misguided people can be exing to the Department of Fish and Game, founded by Mr. and Mrs. Na. Wednesday, July 2, 1969 THIS LOGGING SITE in Tuolumne county has been donated for use as a Scout camp by William J. Pendola, member of a family which is well known in the Golden Empire. Pendolas are active in Yuba River Lumber Co. and Brunswick Timber Products Corp. William Pendola is the president of Pickering Lumber Co. The Department of Fish and People who pick up these and other young animals in the belief they need assistance almost always are creating problems for themselves and for the deer, the DFG says. Here are three things to remember if you should come across a fawn on your outdoor travels: 1, Young deer require special care and feeding which the average person cannot provide. 2. If the animal should survive, it can become a bothersome and at times a. dangerous pet. Each year the Department learns of persons injured or killed by "pet" deer. 3, And last but not least,-it's against the law to possess a deer, even a young one. Remember, the DFG says, even if a fawn appears to have been. abandoned by its mother, the chances are that she is close CENSUS TALLIES 1,014 SEA OTTERS A census has disclosed a count of 1,014 sea otters along the Central California coast, indicating a dramatic comeback. of the rare animals, the Department of Fish and Game reported Classified Ads, little fellows with the big pulling power the . Actions taken during long planning session The Nevada County Planning Commission conducted two controversial use permit public hearings that took two hours apiece and took care of the following more routine business at a. meeting which opened at 7:30 Monday night and adjourned after 1 a.m. Tuesday: morning. ~Recommended that the board of supervisors rezone property presently within a "U" (unclassified district)“on. Banner Lava Cap Road to "R-1-B-20" (one family residential with building sites to be a minimum of approximately. one half acre), Said property is unofficially known as The Benuzzi Tract. —Conducted a first public hearing and set a second hearing for July 14 on a planning commission resolution to establish an "R-1" (one family residential) district in an unclassified district in Birch Meadows Annex. —Accepted, subject to the Advisory Review Committee's recommendations, a tentative map of Donner View, 10 lots on the Donner Lake Access Road, Harris and Horman are owners and FREE ESTIMATES subdividers. —Conducted a first public hearing on a planning commission resolution to hold public hearings to amend the subdivision section of the county code relating to minimum building site areas, and minimum average lot requirements in an "R1" district; and to amend the section of the code relating tothe number of public hearings required to amend said ordinance. The second public hearing is slated for July 14, —Approved a tentative map of Ponderosa Palisades Unit No. 4, 60 lots south of Truckee. C. S. Beavers is owner and subdivider. —Approved tentative map of Alta Sierra Estates Nineteen, 52 lots and two parcels on Dog Gar and Alta Sierra Drive. Nevada County Title Co. is owner and Lakeworld Development Company is subdivider. —Approved amended tentative map of Deer Creek Park Unit No. 2, 230 lots east of Nevada City. Tierra Alta Development Company is owner and subdivider. THE BEST MOVE OU. EVER MADE 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE Phone 273-2206 i?