TRACKS AND TRACKING 



undesirable specimens. In Yellowstone Park, 

 for example, since the cougars there are system- 

 atically hunted with hounds, wolves and coyotes 

 ought to be protected to a certain extent or else 

 the result will undoubtedly be a general degen- 

 eration among the game animals in that region. 



Before the warfare against lions was started, 

 there were already many scabby elks in that great 

 preserve, and if the slaughter of scavengers is 

 kept up indiscriminately well, a reasonable per- 

 son can only await results with misgivings. 

 Nature alw r ays works out her course best if left 

 alone, and I believe that in the case of the Yel- 

 lowstone Park the Nation in the course of time 

 will be willing to pay ten times the amount it 

 now pays for their extermination to have the 

 " varmints " alive in that great preserve. Where 

 weaklings are not abundant, game animals nat- 

 urally suffer from an abundance of wolves, and 

 where the stock-raiser has enough sense to dis- 

 pose of sick or weak stock himself, Old Gray has 

 no business. 



In hunting wolves the quickest results are ob- 

 tained in calling by imitating the cries of a jack- 

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