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Show for prGilntos" control Hatch said his interest has not been prompted by this single Instance,". ..but predator control has been the subject of much debate and j very little action for too long. When I entered the Senate j In 1976, I then had a forum to turn my concern Into leg- I lslatlon. Predators are i causing problems to our ! livestock Industry, our deer j population, and with this 1 latest California incident, predator control should be a concern of every parent." The Utah Republican said one control method could come from the regulated use of Compound 10-80. "The use of 10-80 offers some excellent excel-lent methods, but its use Is .only : one of many options that should be considered by our state and federal a-encies,"Hatch a-encies,"Hatch said. An immediate need for "appropriate predator control" con-trol" was voiced Monday by Sen Orrin G. Hatch, R -Utah. The call came after reading an account of a 3 -year -old California girl belngat-tacked belngat-tacked and killed in her front yard by a coyote. "After reading the article I was incensed--belng so familiar as I am with the federal government's ridiculous rid-iculous policy of protecting all coyotes without regard to the exploding coyote pop -ulation'Hatch said. "The coyote populations In the West obviously have reached plague proportions. "I wonder how anyone can now question predator control con-trol when we can see coyotes ' looting garbage cans in communities com-munities throughout the west, when coyotes are sighted along the beltway In the nation's capitol, when one coyote actually takes a human life in California. Effective Ef-fective predator control is obviously needed." Expressing his concern, Hatch placed calls to Interior Secretary James Watt and to John Daniel, chief of staff of the Environmental Protection Protec-tion Agency (EPA). "Both officials said they shared my concern and would look into the matter. "Hatch added." |