Show UTAH WAGES WAR ON PREDATORY ANIMALS approximately deer and sheep eating predators are biting the dust annually in utah mark anderson head of the utah fish and game department reported today that a constant program of vigilance is waged against lions and coyotes who have made their winter meals on deer and feast in the sum summer mer on sheep he said the state department annually contributes toward the program and that a total of 1 I 1 bout is spent every year on the program by cooperating agencies cies anderson reported that with predatory animals more in evidence on winter ranges there had been persistent reports and some alarm expressed among sportsmen about the damage being done to deer herds by the predators the coyotes naturally follow the sheep and deer from summer to winter ranges however in killing the predators it is a question of how much is enough anderson said aid nothing short of total extinction would stop the depredations of predators entirely but the fact that we have had a decided increase in deer since a systematic predatory animal campaign was initiated about 20 years ago is proof that th ane e program has been an effective factor in producing a surplus of deer for the hunter he continued anderson reported that in some localities roving dogs are doing more damage to the deer than coyotes and cougars dogs not only kill deer but disturb and harass animals that are already weak and need all of their energies to with S tand stand the rigors of winter cougars are more effective deer killers than are coyotes but cougars a are re relatively scarce and not noi hard to take with dogs they are fou found nd only in scattered areas As a matter of fact cougar hunting is itself a top sport for the more hard hardy y hunters im not so sure the game director said that we should exterminate our native lions if we could A report from allen alien hansen hunter for the department indicates that four cougars were killed near Str awbery eleven lions have alsol also been killed east of parowan carowan recently and others have been shot in the vicinity of richfield |