Show Predator Predatory Animals Meet Doom I From Hunters and Bounty System I A total of predatory I animals met their doom duro dur jag ing 1962 j The US Fish and Wildlife Services Service's Predatory and Rod Rod-I Rod Rod- Rodent ent Control Division reported that state and federal hunters I killed and the bounty system knocked off another I INCLUDED IN the bounty total are bobcats and 1480 coyotes I Hunters earned for I bobcats and for coyotes Each animal gets 4 per head A K Barton livestock commissioners with Utah State Board of Agriculture said that since its creation in 1943 the bounty system has helped reduce livestock loss from predators in Utah by 95 byI I STATE FISH and Game Board officials approve con con- controlled controlled trolled extermination where predators caused a problem but view indiscriminate slaughter slaughter as encouraged by the bounty system as upsetting the balance of nature They succeeded in having the mountain lion taken oU off the bounty list It is estimated that there are not much more than cougars left in Utah There is no restriction on hunting mountain lions in Utah and 91 were killed in 1962 Thirty six black bear re re- reported ported molesting livestock al al- al also so were sent to their happy hunting ground |