Show TRADITION OF WEST SCRAPPED Men rell of Forest Po rest Service Find Porcupines I Only Nuisances Another frontier fron tradition was shat shat- shattered t Saturday when Ihen forest service officials explained that so far as they know the porcupine is 15 of no earthly use The porcupine In the west has long been regarded in a hallowed benefi bench beneficent beneficent cent light In the early das it was wa said that it was the tote only edible an animal an- an anImal animal imal that an unarmed man man could could kill killand killand killand and many are the stories pf starving I men saving their lives by killing a porcupine and roasting its opossum- opossum I like meat I Forest service men have ha been won won- wondering wondering wondering dering why Ogden police have taken the 12 porcupines found in Ogden re recently re- re for fer a buggy ride back to their native haunts Here are the reasons they think Porky should be killed now that men are arc seldom in danger of to death in this western country GENERAL L SLAUGHTER 1 Inquisitive I-Inquisitive range cattle sniff hedgehogs get quills in their snoots and eventually starve to death 2 2 Many Many valuable dogs are killed by porcupines 3 Porcupines 3 ruin forest planta plants plantations plantations Lions of young oung trees girdle big trees and kill them too 4 Porcupines 4 kill many fur-bearing fur animals 5 Porcupines S-Porcupines cat eat saddles bridles harness shoes sho s and puttees The biological survey in the south south- southwest southwest southwest west is ls said to be conducting exper- exper experIments ments on how to kill porcupines by poison polson and other agencies t I All II forest Sorest rangers kill every porcu porcu- porcupine porcupine porcupine pine they see They Th y compete with each other to see who can kill the greatest number each season So far Ranger Ed Cox of o the ManU Mantl forest with porcupine pelts for a sin sin- single single single gle season holds the record although Rangers Aaron and George Georgo Larson of the Uinta forest hold the three-day three record with 35 to their credit Uncle Dave Lewis the most famous trapper and hunter In the he Big Dig Creel Cree country in Idaho the greatest re remaining re- re remaining big game same paradise has a n. theory all his own He sas sa's that as porcupines increase predatory fur-bearing fur animals de de- de crease The animals in dead of win win- winter ter he declares become hungry at at- at I tack porcupines and and get quills In their mouths and throat and starve to death Lynx he contends have been almost exterminated around Big Creek by porcupines A porcupine loves anything with salt in It He will chew to bits a sad sad- saddle saddle saddie dle die or a bridle or a harness pair of shoes puttees or belt Porcupines can climb so it is of no use to hang the article in a tree In the winter they climb into a atre tree tre and during the heavy snow live from the young oung wood or girdle and thus kill the tree They will clean out outa a plantation of young joung yellow pine trees in a single month |