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Show i NATIONAL WILDLIFE! FED, AGAINST 1080 USE The National Wildlife Fed- j eration has taken a stand against Congressional passage pas-sage of a bill that would legalize the use of a deadly poison, Compound 1080, against coyotes and other livestock predators. Since it was developed in , ! 1944 to control coyotes, 1080 i has killed many thousands of dogs and animals other than coyotes, while the coyote coy-ote is flourishing. Coy- j otes subsist mainly on ro- j dents, rather than livestock, j Because coyotes play such a vital role in the ecosystem, ecosys-tem, It would be a great , mistake to eradicate them. I Their populations are great- I est where there are large ; rodent populations, and therefore elimination of the coyotes could be disastrous to the environments. |