Show Enter Study of Predator Eagles of the Wool WOI Growers Association the Audubon Society and th thu US Fish Wildlife Service will into a way three study during the 68 1967 lambing sea sea- season son to determine the amount of damage caused to stock by eagles B H 11 chairman of the predator committee was named one of two to meet with Dr Stanley A Cain assistant assistants s secretary of the Interior who suggested the research EAGLES follow only coy coy- coyotes otes as the most destructive predators in Utah and are mo moving ling ving more and more into the state Mr stated as revealed in a Deseret News article this past week Utah loses about five percent of its sheep each year because of predators This is why the state has only a little over a million sheep today compared with sIth ov ov- ov over er el three million they used to have Mr ex cx- cx DR CAIN said that the Bur Bur- Bureau Burcan eau can of Sports Fi Fisheries and Wildlife was seeking to find a middle ground between the ex cx- cx of nature unfettered and of extermination of every pre pre pre- predator dator and nuisance animal Bird lovers and ranchers losing lambs and kids by eagle have been in two camps suspicious and angry with each other he continued Generally speaking such sit sit- situations nations fraught with emotion occur most readily in the ab ab- ab sense of valid information both general and precise DR CARL W Buchheister New York president of the Audubon Society told the wool growers that he joined them In denouncing the Mis lis representation of the sheep ran ran- rancher cher as a killer who likes to trap poison or shoot eagles for forthe forthe the fun of it |