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Mr. Miller. In fact, they made the finding that it was in fact 

 baited, and it was — I am trying to think of a word here — but it was 

 easily recognizable as a baited field. 



Mr. Oliveros. That is correct. 



Mr. Miller. And you stated that this land was cleared land, so 

 this was not to be confused with trucks knocking seeds off of plants 

 or grain off of a stalk or what have you; that is not what was going 

 on here. 



Mr. Oliveros. No; there was no confusion whatsoever about 

 whether or not the stuff was grown on the field. It was distributed 

 and had been distributed for some time. I know I could look at it 

 and tell that it had been placed on that field on at least three sepa- 

 rate occasions. When I looked at it on the day before, it was obvi- 

 ous that some of the grain had been put out since the last rain. 

 It last rained on that area the day before. There was also older bait 

 indicating that it had been out there for several weeks. So, it ap- 

 peared to me to be an extensive baiting operation that had been 

 going on for some time. 



Mr. Miller. Well, that is interesting, you know. We heard testi- 

 mony that people checked the field and satisfied themselves and 

 maybe satisfied others that it was not baited, but apparently, that 

 evidence was not entered into court, but the court, in fact, found 

 that it was baited in this case and apparently clearly so. Why did 

 you not call the sponsors of this hunt? 



Mr. Oliveros. Well, there are several reasons there. Number 

 one, first of all, I was not real sure of what this field was. There 

 was nothing on the field to indicate who owned it or if it was asso- 

 ciated with any type of particular hunt. I had my suspicions, but 

 I did not know for sure. This field was so heavily baited that my 

 first impression was, when I saw it, that anyone who hunted on 

 this field either knows in advance, or as soon as they step on this 

 field, they are going to know it is baited. It was in that bad of a 

 condition. 



There were only two entrances to this field. I have a large aerial 

 photo of the field for anyone who would care to look at it. But there 

 are only two ways to enter the field, and all of the hunters that 

 I know of entered from one way. As soon as they entered that field, 

 the roads were heavily baited. All they had to do was look out the 

 window of the vehicle they were in, and they could readily have 

 seen it. That is how I saw it. When I first arrived on the field, I 

 never got out of the vehicle. I just drove down the road, and it was 

 apparently obvious to me that this place was heavily baited, be- 

 cause you are talking about a white sand road that looks like a 

 beach, and then, you have corn, cracked corn, milo, millet, wheat 

 and bahaia seed scattered all over it. There was nothing else it 

 could have been. 



Mr. Miller. What other violations were cited? Were there gun 

 violations? 



Mr. Oliveros. It was obvious there were unplugged guns. I know 

 two people whom I apprehended had unplugged guns. There were 

 unplugged guns being shot at various places on the field. There 

 were overlimits being taken. There were non-game birds 



Mr. Miller. Were people in possession of overlimits? 



