Show Pag January 12 1973 10 Eagles may be slain by stalling slayers of a massive number of eagles in Wyoming and Colorado A “piddling wrist slap” has been given to the helicopter Poots take notice by Bill Davis environmental editor As an offshoot of the Environmental Department I would like to start a new Student Life column This column will deal exclusively with the publication of student poetry All students (or anyone else for that matter) are invited to submit poetry for consideration Subject matter is up to the poet The poems need not be limited to environmental subjects Poems will not be edited If a poem is too long for available space the manuscript will be returned with aJetter of explanation Entries will not be returned unless accompanied by a stamped envelope Please send entries to Bill Davis Student Life office Box 1262 USU self-address- ed out of the and more eagles may be killed as order to "blast the birds of a the result of “stalling” by the sky from the cockpit Interior Department charges the helicopter” Although originally charged with slaying 65 National Wildlife Federation In a Nov 27 letter to Interior American bald and golden eagles Dean Visentiner a Secretary Rogers CB Morton Thomas L Kimball NWF Colorado sheep rancher and Joe executive vice president and Evans a pilot of the flying5 Victor H Kramer director of the company pled guilty to slaying Institute of Public Interest golden eagles The Federation Georgetown contends that the number of Representation Law Center cite the recent eagles was reduced in order to sentences handed to a Colorado secure convictions “without the rancher and a Wyoming pilot who inconvenience of a trial” In another conviction the pled guilty to federal charges of from former manager of the Buffalo eagles shotgunning helicopters “Not only are the Flying Service Doyle Vaughn fines for the eagle slaughter far has admitted guilt in a Wyoming less than they should have been” federal court in the slaying of 75 Kimball asserted “but the stock-me- n eagles in the same way The involved are apparently flying company itself pled no The going to be able to continue to use contest to the same charge 366 slain the public range for private original charge was for the profit” The letter to Morton eagles Both Vaughn and emphasizes that much of the flying service were fined $500 and on unsupervised blame goes to the Interior placed to for failure probation Department “That’s only $666 per eagle regulate the killings Kimball exKimball and Kramer described slaughtered” cases in which prominent stock-me- n claimed “At about 50 cents a from Colorado and Wyoming pound you’d pay nearly a dollar b dressed allegedly hired the Buffalo more for a law the federal Under in Buffalo turkey!” Wyo Flying Service -- 15-l- defendants could have been sentenced $500 as well as spend six months in jail for each eagle slain Killing Widespread Ranchers have argued that eagles take an excessive number of young lambs each year In a mature Wyoming in 1971 was found shot to golden eagle to note tied its death with a legs with barbed wire The note read: “To the continued safety of the flocks of Wyoming for he died that the lambs may grow” Conservationists have argued that an incident of an eagle taking a lamb is rare and that the problem is grossly overstated The widespread slaying of eagles first came to light during Congressional hearings in August 1971 At that time pilot James Vogan testifed under oath that the Buffalo Flying Service was hired by at least nine ranches in Wyoming and Colorado to kill eagles Vogan claimed that one Herman Wyoming rancher Werner of the Bolton Ranch Casper Wyo paid “at least” $15000 to the flying service in bounties Vogan’s records disclosed that 570 eagles were killed while in the employ of Werner In testimony Vogan claimed to have shot as many as 34 eagles a day as well as elk deer antelope geese and a bear For his testimony Vogan was given coyotes 'O' immunity from prosecution Werner has been charged with killing 366 eagles from helicopters and presently awaits tnai i i Ses the amazing UlPflVOTE LJflLl F §©iyiii© eagles Werner is charged with killing will be lessened as in the other cases at— National outlook The national outlook for the bald eagle population is con- of Sound 'House His attorney recently suffered a heart attack and action on the case will not resume until he recoveres not estimated until March or April It is not known at this time whether the number of sidered bleak lower 48 as few pollution continue The total in the states is estimated to be birds and as and diminishing habitat to take their toll The southern species of bald eagle found in the Eastern half of the US has already been classified an endangered species Where You Will Find Everything In Stereo Besides the “tragic destruction hundreds of eagles” the Federation and the Institute for Public Interest Representation are concerned that “public range land is being used for private profit” without regard for compliance with federal law It has been against the Jaw to shoot bald eagles since 1940 of f m lilt sj 17E HEED GIRLS an wt-j- V If n you would like to be on the ru V 8b rji -- o' Ly 9 V JSfO Jx committee to plan iH the annual AWS f§R 3 oo O tct it Preference Ball March 2 1973 come to the planning OTE)KD C onm meeting Tuesday Icj'iSfcTcjCeScT LAFAYETTI SALES & SERVICE Eatt Phone753-064- 4 4 J |