Show LARGE KILL OF PREDATORY BEASTS MADE While the killing hilling ot of o predator animals Is not on one ot of o the tho main du- du duties duties du duties ties ot of a forest fort ranger such animals were killed by tOI cst set ser service vice men In the IntermountaIn dis- dis distrIct dis district during 1921 sa sas s a report I complIed compiled Saturday The Tho animals killed hilled bv by forest oer- oer ser service vice Ic ice form torm only a lait nl ait t ot of the ho total killed hilled v early b bythe the biological suncy surey and local the year car CO coyotes otes nero ere andI I kIlled l by forest rangers although only seven of this number ere ere I killed on ott Utah forests Other I tory pledl anima animas anima's disposed ot I were nero ere 27 bears 9 3 I lynx 4 I II I 1 1 or the tho first year sear ar In the hl history tory ot of otI othe I 1 l he service no mountain lions sere ere I killed on intermountain district for tor- forests for forests ests by ringers rangers I An Interesting feature of th o the re- re report report re report port Is la that were ere I killed l on the tho Manti Mantl National 1 for for- forest forest est cst in Utah The old tor-I tor that the tho porcupine docs does no lamaS is rapidly vanishing vanishing- sass sa s r 1 t S I baker In charge of ot the de deport deport- depart department put put- ment of ot i relations Mr Baker Daher declares porcupInes eat the llio bark and girdle trees thus I killing thousands ot of 0 good trees The rhe killing hilling of o such large larse numbers I I of CO coyotes otes Mr Baker Daker sa says sas s has upset tho the natural balance ot of nature and ind pOI have greatly Increased ed In number I An 01 old 1 superstition that a man lost in lit the woods could at a s save ave from starvation by killing manI I and eating porcupines ho says sn has tho animals heretofore The porcupine Mas sas a al ala always alnas a s consid conald- conald considered ered tho the ono edible animal an un- un unarmed Unarmed I armed man could n easily kill |