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Show " By Jack Wallis J fPort from Washington it ap-it ap-it newly elected western GOP i3nen are taking their wrath coyote. Rep.-elect Jim Hansen is leading what is called a ucus" even though he has not -sworn into office. group has representatives lorado, Idaho, New Mexico, ' and Utah who are livestock ! e group is aiming at restor-i restor-i as a permissible predator L od. ;) orientation session in f a week ago the freshman 1 said they wanted T control to include cougars ;;s as well as coyotes. The ants the program to be J the Agriculture Department , present Department of - said, "We absolutely need to of 10-80 poisoning for con-?0'es. con-?0'es. The Interior officials Jealous and over -regulated J : coyotes as endangered it's the livestock that's in j" carried away and further 18 estimated that some . es nightly roam Utah's 3and that at certain times is ' Jlfee targe sheep ranchers Th as $1,000 nightly in caucus" pointed out l predator control was a lev hf 'n the increasin8 cost : W former President g ne "alted predator poison- !ssue has been kicked env'ronmentalists snort- smen and livestockmen, each having a special concern for their own interests. Very few easterners seem to realize the problem of coyotes in the west and have sided to protect the coyote from being trapped or poisoned. Now that a western influence is building in important impor-tant Congressional committees, maybe the tide can be changed. But we doubt the statement that there are 300,000 coyotes roaming in the Uintah Uin-tah Basin. We also don't think the cougars and bears should be included in predator control measures. Somethimes our Congressmen become over zealous and make statements that can harm their efforts instead of solving the problem They blame Nixon for being poorly informed when he let the poison ban get through, but it sounds like some poor information informa-tion is going around concerning the number of coyotes in our area. Also why do we need to poison cougars or bears? At one time the bobcat was considered con-sidered a predator. Now, mainly because of the value of its pelt the bobcat bob-cat is dwindling in numbers until it has had to be protected. . Covotes seem to survive in greater nuSrsandaremoredifficuUtoco. trol than any other predator The only effective method of control that has 3S3SS ting too much poison around? If hist the coyotes could be poisoned of cougars and bears. |