Show B by y td ted kesting af after ter more than tharl years of bloodletting blood letting and scade collean ing most conservation experts agree that its a waste of money to set a price on the heads of foxes wolves certain hawks and owls wea we aslos crows mountain lions and such assorted vil vii lians in fact there Is increasing evidence that most of these are not gillians vil lians at all but arc nrc lre often beneficial except in isolated cases nevertheless the bounty system continues principally because of two powerful factors pronounced public opinion cs es specially ally among hunters in favor of bounties and an unhappy knowledge possessed by conser vatic on officials that some come predators acors sometimes must bo be con trolled strolled somehow even if the bounty system beem seem to bo be the right method according to outdoor writer bill wolf there any good factual evidence to prove r 0 v e that bounties materially re reduce u c e predator populations or ever have done clone so except in small local preas nor Is there any evidence that most of uio the animals and birds turned in for bounties have been killed anklow any ly by trappers sportsmen and 04 armors michigan has had unhappy ex es with bounties from 1869 ip tp the tho present it has hav paid paid more titan than 1 million in bounties op wolves coyotes and ler cr ier animals and the coyote it ns increased nicely thank k you one of the few good thi things hout lout tiiu the bounty system is that it Is the hunters hunte money going down iown the drain not the general predators have been quito quite happy under the pennsylvania bounty system which started in 1630 gray cray foxes are increasing expanding their range red foxes have thrived under the he system there has been no ho no tice tic able cable decline in weasels destructive tive hawks and tind owls the answer adds up the same bounties apparently do not control predators however pro pre pr must be controlled at times and if the bounty system work what hat will states are arc now trying to educate their citizens to accept the tho logical solution intense local war where needed on predators by professional trappers and exterminators plus the education of farmer trappers in the same sort of work I 1 no one in conservation denies the necessity of controlling predators occasionally in certain areas but all students of the pro blem are arc coming to the sion that such control should be the work of men trained to do the job |