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Show Don't Ash Wolf Bounty . . . If You Shoot Jovser! By Jeaa Bunettl . Dont holler "wolf in Utah unless you are able to differentiate between s real wolf and sn ordinary coyote, which just happens to have Crete Garbo-fixed feet Ths state has quit paying SIS wolf bounties on police dogs and overgrown coyotes. Ths bounty pay-mont pay-mont holds only for legitimate wolves which pats postmortem post-mortem investigation.. I Answering claims that "there are plenty of wolves . , . - . ln Utah," Owen W. Morris, district agent predator and rodent control branch, U. S. fitn snd wildlifs service, Wednesday repeated his previous contention that the wolf has been extinct in this state since 1030. Mr. Morris challenged tha "disbelievers" to produce pro-duce s four-legged wolf which ran qualify for a bounty. The stats department of agriculture paid"S49 in . bounties on three would-be wolves several years age. Skull inspections later revealed the animals to be (1) s police dog, (2) well-fed coyote and (3) another police dog. - ; -. ' j ; - The state hasn't paid any wolf bounties since instituting insti-tuting these rigid inspections, according to J. H. Crofts, chairman of the department Vou'U have a hard time convincing government predator control workers that there is a single, solitary soli-tary wolf roaming Utah ranges. , J . ' Mr. Morris says that ths last wolf la the state was taken by agents ia 1B2S-30. He maintains that "wolves" seen today are coyotes some good tiled, others merely with big feet. , - . . , f v - . - "- |