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he usually makes a business of it, and if one should 

 get the habit he could be specially disposed of. 

 Protection to the grizzly would not be at the ex- 

 pense of live stock or big game. 



During rambles in the mountains through the 

 years I have investigated more than fourteen cases 

 in which the grizzly was charged with killing cattle. 

 In a number of instances there was not a trace of a 

 grizzly near the carcass. There were traces of other 

 animals, but the guilty one could not be deter- 

 mined. There were eleven carcasses that had been 

 visited by grizzlies; six of these animals had been 

 killed by lions, one by poisonous plants, one by 

 wolves, two by stones that rolled from a land-slip. 

 In the eleventh case neither the carcass nor its 

 surroundings gave any conclusive evidence for de- 

 termining the cause of the cow's death. The car- 

 cass had been fed upon by coyotes, wolves, lions, 

 and both black and grizzly bears. But what killed 

 the cow? It might have been lightning or disease, a 

 wolf or a lion, or possibly a hunter. Many hunters 

 are not up on natural history and shoot at the first 

 object that moves. The only evidence against the 

 grizzly was entirely circumstantial ; he had eaten a 

 part of the carcass. 



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