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Show ipifigi DJjf ICS Ihvml , & , . i fXCLE SAM Is killing off the killers which Is to say that the federal government gov-ernment Is obliged to wage persistent and aggressive ag-gressive war against the predatory animals In defense de-fense of the wild animal life of national park and national forest and of the herds of the cattleman cattle-man and sheepman. More than 100.0(10 wolves, coyotes, coy-otes, bobcats. lynxes, mountain Hons and "killer" heirs have been killed In the six years since this warfare began. Yet the beasts of prey persist. In spite of the fact that the hand of every man Is against them night and day, year In and year out. The coyote is even Increasing In numbers and Is widening Ids range. .Nobody knows Just why the coyote howls at night. As good a guess ns anv Is that it Is his way of notifying civilized mat) that he I Is still on the Job and Intends to stay. In spite of rltle, trap and poison. And everyone who has heard the coyote give voice at night knows that n large part .of the weird performance strik-i strik-i Ingly resembles mocking laughter. Covernment hunters In the lust nix years have killed with trap and gun 1 .'d, 1 ." wild animals that roamed the Western ranges and preyed on IrVe stock. The campaign against these anl-! anl-! mills was begun by the government in l'.'l." and now all the states except Arkansas, Oklahoma and South Dakota, Da-kota, are co-operating. ' The list Includes -i0 hears, 17.SPJ bobcats and lynxes. l.'M.iWl coyotes, fins i mountain lions nnd 3.i'k".0 wolves. The j t'dnl shows the number of scaips J taken; It does m t Include the large i number of animals killed by poison, i The figures would be greatly Increased I If those anlnuils. too. were In the list. Many poisoned animals are never found. Their Destruttiveness. j In the llscal year 1PJI tne total nurn- I her of predatory animals killed was '-'T.''IT, classified ns follows: Si) bears,! o.-HW bobcats and lynxes, 'J-I.";"S coy- i otcs, 1-S mountain lions and ,r'.'l , wolves. j I The average destruction by these j j animals Is estimated to have been for j ! each wolf and mountain Hon, about ' I,IHKI worth of live stock; each coyote I and hi heat, ?."i0 worth, and each stock- j Killing bear. S'.IH) worth. In view of ' ; these estimates an Idea Is obtained of j tin' tremendous damage inert ed by the L'ovol'liineiit's skilled hunters. These J llgures are averages; In some cases, I notably that of the Custer wolf (Custer, (Cus-ter, S. ID, the dcis-edni Ions of Inillvb!-luil Inillvb!-luil predatory animals have reached much higher figures. The Custer wolf was estimated to have killed at least S'.Ti.iiihi worth of cattle before It was disposed of not long ago. Tin' figures given represent the government's gov-ernment's activities along this Hue in Arizona, Arkansas, ( 'iillfornlu, Colorado, Colora-do, Idaho, Montane, Nevaoa. New Mexico. Mex-ico. North I'akota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South MaUota, Texas, 1'tah. Washington Washing-ton and Wyoming. Muring the six-year campaign more predatory nnltuals w ere kllJcil In Nevada than In any other slate, largely because Hint stale was Hie llisl lo conduct a co-operative campaign cam-paign with the government, starting In f 1 T-s- :. fjtt 1010. The totnl killed In Nevada, not Including animals poisoned. Is put at 32.0GS. Utah comes second, with 21,-712; 21,-712; Texas, third, with 18.G02 ; Idaho, fourth, with 1G.01S ; Oregon, fifth, with 12,f24. and Washington, sixth, with 10.01"). Texas leads the sixteen states In number of wolves disposed of, the total to-tal being l.fiCG during the six-year cam- palgn, or more than 40 per cent of the total number of wolves killed In alt sixteen states. Wyoming ranks second In number of wolves killed, with 4S0; New Mexico, third, with 441; Mon- " tana, fourth, with 339; Arizona, fifth, with 1S3, and Utah, sixth, with 170. In number of coyotes whose scalps have been taken by government hunters hunt-ers and in co-operative campaigns, Nevada Ne-vada leads with 27.173; Utah Is second sec-ond with 1S.707; Texas third with. 14,530; Idaho fourth with 14,454; Oregon Ore-gon fifth with 10,351, and Washington sixth with 9,031. Arizona and New Mexico account for nearly two-thirds of the total number of mountain lions killed, their totals being 255 and 170. respectively. In Utah 71 mountain lions were kflled; in Oregon 43. Colorado 30. California 29 and Nevada 24. |