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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 milhon 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 five stock, each coyote $50, each cougar or moun- 

 tain Hon $500, each bobcat $50, and each stock-kiUing 

 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 



