
The range is at 16525 Guejito Road and Lake Wohlford Road. Students will learn the basics of handguns, safety, home safety and responsibility of firearm ownership. Jack Bryson is offering a three-hour basic handgun-home firearm safety class at the Escondido Fish and Game Association’s shooting range east of Lake Wohlford. They all picked limits and never moved outside of a 20-foot area. She said her group of seven plied the low tides of recent days and found good-sized clams, none smaller than 5½ inches. For details, check Notes: Deena Nelson reports excellent digging for Pismo clams on a South County beach recently. at the Town & Country Convention Center, 500 Hotel Circle North. Auction ’14 is Saturday, March 8, from 4 p.m. Olsen said the San Diego Chapter of Safari Club International’s Auction ’14, “Boots & Britches and a kickin’ good time” will be geared to raising money for the pronghorn project. “They are critically endangered, but by giving them a new area like the Chuckwalla, it gets them across the Colorado River and in an area that they can breed and not be susceptible to diseases. “There won’t be a hunting program in our lifetime,” Olsen said. Olsen also said that the reintroduction of pronghorn in Southern California won’t lead to a hunting program any time soon. “They need hundreds of thousands of acres to roam,” Olsen said. San Diego County doesn’t have nearly enough open land for the reintroduction of pronghorn here, Olsen said. “Have to figure Patton’s tanks put an end to the pronghorn there,” Olsen said. George Patton’s troops when they trained in the desert, and Juan Cabrillo reported seeing pronghorn when he landed here. Olsen said other areas being studied as possible release sites include Rice Valley north of Blythe and the Anza-Borrego Desert.

“The habitat is rich there because of the drinkers they put in there over the years.” “One person who deserved kudos for all that is Leon Lesicka and his group at Desert Wildlife Unlimited,” Olsen said.
