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taining a sufficient number of hunters and trappers; in fact, 
such work would be the means of finding employment for 
many men who are skilled in hunting and trapping, and 
who prefer such occupation, and might advisedly form part 
of the resettlement scheme. 
CoNTROL OF PREDATORY ANIMALS IN THE UNITED 
STATES 
Owing to the enormous losses experienced by the live- 
stock interests in the United States, particularly in the 
stock-raising areas of the West, the Federal and State gov- 
ernments have been compelled to take very active measures 
to eradicate the predatory animals which are responsible 
for their losses. 
It is estimated by Dr. E. W. Nelson, chief of the Biologi- 
cal Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture, 
that predatory animals destroy annually from twenty to 
thirty million dollars’ worth of live stock on the western 
cattle ranges. The United States Forest Service estimates 
that each wolf destroys annually an average of $1,000 
worth of live stock, each coyote $50, each cougar or moun- 
tain lion $500, each bobcat $50, and each stock-killing 
grizzly bear $500. 
In the annual report of the United States Biological Sur- 
vey for 1917-1918 it is stated that the chairman of the State 
Live Stock Board of Utah estimates an annual loss in that 
region amounting to 500,000 sheep and 4,000,000 pounds 
of wool. The President of the New Mexico College of 
Agriculture, as a result of a survey of conditions in that 
State, estimates an annual loss there of 3 per cent of the 
cattle, or 34,000 head, and 165,000 sheep. A single wolf 
killed by one of the Bureau hunters in southern New Mexico 
was reported by stock-owners of that vicinity to have killed 
during the preceding six months 150 head of cattle, valued 
