Show WAR ON WILD ANIMALS i Trained Hunters Hunter Employed In la Oregon I I Forest Reserves to Destroy Them Themi I i Special to The TIle News Nels Portland Or 13 Bitter warfare is to be ire waged against predatory wild willI In the Pacific northwest by b the National forest service which has bias just made an appropriation of ot 1350 for tor hir hit hiring hirIng ing lug professional hunters for Cor this section of or the country countr This amount has been i allotted to the Wallowa Whitman Mal Ial hear heur Fremont Umatilla and national forests In Oregon and tho Otto and national for Cor forests ests eats in Washington The object of or securing hunters Is not only to protect stock grazing crazing on the he forest reserves under permit but to safeguard game animals animal such as Jeer deer elk and mountain sheep as well as us game birds Cougar lynx and other othor predatory predator animals thrive In the na an national forests and are today a great menace to the growth of or game rame Cougar and lynx are arc regarded regard cd as a greater menace to game Iame than are hunt hunters hunters huntera ers era and elk calves calve and the young of other animals arc are the prey of at tho the savage wildcats Eight professional hunters have boon bean employed on the national forests of tho the state at Intervals during the tho past year ar arand and they have killed a total of or coy coyotes otes otos 21 l bears 8 wolves 21 wildcats and un unI andI 3 I I Not only has the destruction of or these animals by b the government hunters been a great saving to the Iho stockmen but hut to farmers living near the national forests whose poultry and ani nn domestic stock suffer from the tho raids of or wild animals |