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Show (MIC OFF WILD ANIMALS TO SAVE THE RANSE STOCK The Forest Service Has Employed Eleven Experienced Hunters and Trappers to Destroy Predatory Animals. Washington Substantial evidence that the government U determined to put foith every effort to liilng the national na-tional forest lauds to the highest point of development Is given In the activities of Uncle Sam In plnnnlng the eradication ( predatory animals which destroy nnunlly thousands of dollars worth of stock running on the ranges In the forests. Hlevon experienced hunters and trappers, whose knowledge of conditions condi-tions and training in the grent west rpinlllles I hem to hunt wolves, eon-gars, eon-gars, mountain Hons, coyotes and wildcats successfully, have been assigned as-signed to the work of exterminating these destructive range animals in national na-tional forests In eight western states. These men. supplied with traps, poisons, poi-sons, guns and ammunition, are going at their work In a way which Is beginning be-ginning to show Its useful ufTect, and the forest olllcers believe that the losses caused by the animals which make stock their pray, have been cut down very materially. |