CHAPTER XIV 

 GRAY WOLVES AND COYOTES 



THE time has gone by when the farmer in the 

 eastern half of the United States has to guard 

 his stock and perhaps his family against wolves 

 as in the days of his forefathers. In the north- 

 ern parts of Canada, however, in the forested 

 parts of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and: 

 Minnesota, and in scattered localities through- 

 out the whole Northwest, and thence northward 

 to the Arctic regions, the great gray or timber 

 wolf is still a menace to the ranchman if not 

 to the cultivator of fields. It also causes the 

 destruction of great numbers of game espe- 

 cially deer, which can ill be spared; and now 

 and then attacks travelers or their horses when 

 picketed out at night. 



Consequently ranchmen are everywhere mak- 

 ing determined cooperative efforts, aided by 

 the government, to kill them off, by breaking 

 up their dens and trapping and poisoning the 



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