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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



A Cinnamon Bear. 



THIS FINE SPECIMEN WAS ONE AND A HALF YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS KILLED AT CASTLE MEADOW, NEAR BALLOON 

 DOME, AT THE JUNCTION OF THE MIDDLE AND SOUTH FORK OF THE JOAQUIN RIVER, SIERRA NATIONAL FOREST, 

 CALIFORNIA. 



the ground before she's back on the 

 run, reachin' for rti}^ toes. Six times 

 she goes down, wipes out one o' my HI 

 band every time, an' gets back to me 

 before I can move. By-an'-by, though, 

 she gets tired and goes away with the 

 cub — an' him so full of fresh sheep he 

 can hardly walk." 



Whether the sheepman has yet carried 

 out his threat to trail that grizzly to her 

 lair and "fill her just plumb full of 

 lead" is not a matter of record; but that 

 Forest Service hunters have, in their 

 efforts to lessen the losses of stockmen 

 from beasts that prey both on sheep 

 and cattle accounted for a grand total 

 of 1,216 bear in the last six years, is 

 officially certified in their reports. Not 

 only bear but mountain lion, lynxes, 

 wildcats, wolves, and, most of all, the 

 crafty, swift coyote have been warred 



on. Altogether over 36,000 animals of 

 these various kinds have been made 

 way with since 1908, in the effort to 

 clear the National Forests of what are 

 regarded as pests. Primarily this has 

 been done to increase the production of 

 domestic meat supplies on the Forests 

 which play so important a part in the 

 economy of the western livestock in- 

 dustry; but for sportsmen also the 

 lessening of the number of these wild 

 animals, which kill game as well as 

 domestic stock, is a matter of decided 

 interest. 



Before domestic livestock appeared 

 on the scene the meat-eaters of course 

 found their quarry in the native species 

 which for ages had formed their sole 

 subsistence. Deer, elk, antelope, buf- 

 falo, mountain sheep, and the not-to- 

 be-despised prairie dog and other small 



