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Show ' Forest Service Gunning For Pesky Porcupines If you see your Foreat Rang-er packing a shooting Iron thehu days he Is neither tryiiiB to revive the old west nor gunning for heep-hf rders but Is merely prepared to reduce the population nf a certain splney little rodent called a porcupine, The Forest Service has recently Issued pistols to rangers of the Dixie National Forest to re. duce populations of these pests who satisfy their ravenous appetites by chewing the bark off trees which results la either killing or seriously deforming he tree. Although there was an es. tlmated 3 million board feet of timber killed by Hlick Hills beetles this year, on the Dixie National Forest, It Is believed that porcupine damage exceeds that or Insects, The Forest Service aks the cooperation of forest users In control or these rodents. If you shoot them be extremely careful and refrain froai shooting across highways, towards lire-stock, etc., cautious ranger Duck Cuskelly of Pangultch. |