For your information, Wyoming Game and Fish Information sends 

 out news releases almost weekly. Before a news release is issued from 

 the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, it is approved by the 

 particular division concerned. If it is a game release, if it's concerned 

 with game animals, it is approved by the Game Division, fishing by the 

 Fish Division, research and development by the Research and 

 Development Division. And a lot of the times, when I talk to someone 

 in the press, I ask them to give me that same honor that I extend to 

 my own people, and that's examining the story before it's put in the 

 newspaper. They don't like it. Some have come to realize that I'm not 

 trying to hurt them, I'm just trying to save them from making an ass of 

 themselves. It doesn't work. 



I was at Jack Wemple's a couple of days ago and there was a 

 newscaster on television. It said that Dr. Wambach resigned because of 

 the profanity he used during a meeting. He said that it was because of 

 the profanities he used. Not because of the alleged profanity, but by 

 their value judgement, the profanity. Now I don't see that that 

 reporter had any right to make that value judgment. To a little old 

 lady it was probably profanity, to a marine corps drill sergeant, it 

 probably wasn't profanity. But because of the value judgement of that 

 reporter, it was profanity, it became profanity. One of my favorite 

 outdoor writers, who is dead now, is Robert Ruark. He said something 

 in one of his books, "You can't unpull a trigger." Now think about 

 that. I've had the greatest cooperation from the newspapers when they 

 issue a story and they make a mistake on page one, they'll retract it on 

 page 13. Once that story is printed, it's there forever. That becomes 

 fact in the minds of many people. 



I want to show you some pictures of some of the stories and 

 what-not. Can somebody get the lights? And the slide projector? 



(TALKING FROM SLIDES) "The coyote, indispensable and 



indestructable." High Country News, June I, 1979. "Man's threats - 

 abundant guns, traps, poison, hounds and cars are everywhere." Cute 

 pictures. The coyote learns from its mistakes and passes such 

 knowledge to its young. How many biologist do we have in the group. 

 That became fact because it was printed in the High Country News. 

 Persecution. . .despite persecution. Nice words. For over a hundred 

 years it has successfully withstood the onslaught of man's technology 

 and antagonism. Are you starting to feel sorry fo the coyote? Only 

 threat is man. Now then, wasn't it good fo the Colorado Division of 

 Wildlife to add credibility to this story by loaning their photographs to 

 the High Country News? By the way, it's the Colorado Division of 

 Wildlife--they couldn't even get that right. It's not the Colorado 

 Division of Game and Fish. It's their staff photographer. I get 

 requests for photographs almost daily, and they say we'll give you a 

 credit line. So you read a story that is in opposition to what you 

 believe in--what your department believes in--and then they put your 

 photograph in, put your name underneath it and you have added 

 credibility to what they've put out here. 



