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Show FOREST OFFICERS KILL 4,686 ANIMALS Effective Work in Destroying Beasts Which -Irey Upon Stock and Grain During the fiscal year 4,686 predatory animals were killed by federal officers on the national forests, according to an actual count of the carcasses. An indeterminate in-determinate number of animals, whose bodies were not found, are presumed to have died from poison. The ranger's bag of beasts of prey this year, as shown by forest for-est service figures, was made up of 206 bears, 3.541 coyotes, 133 mountain lions, 62 lynx, 58 wild cats, 64 wolves, and 97 wolf pups. The figures indicate that the national forests are becoming becom-ing cleared of wild animals that prey upon domestic livestock and game, for the forest ranger fills in odd moments between other jobs by thinning out "undesirable "un-desirable citizens" of the animal world. Wolves are said to cause greater losses to western. stockmen stock-men than any other of thepred-atory thepred-atory animals. It is estimated that a family of wolves will destroy des-troy about $3,000 wortr of stock per annum, and that one able-bodiedjndividual able-bodiedjndividual costs the grazing graz-ing industry, $600 a mmri - . the smaller prairie wolves or coyotes, and the larger grey, black, or timber wolves, called "lobos." These latter are the great stock destroyers against which the campaign of the rangers has been waged. |