I am sure all of you have heard about the Secretary's November 

 memorandum referred to as the "new" Animal Damage Control Policy, 

 but I'd like to read a few selected phrases from another Department of 

 Interior policy on animal damage control. "The program will be 

 designed in a manner which will insure the maintenance of the varied 

 native wildlife and wildlife habitats of the United States. It is an 

 objective of the bureau to reduce animal depredation as selectively as 

 possible and to direct control at the degradating individual on a local 

 depredating population. This program will be selective and humane to 

 the extent possible and will utilize research findings and advances in 

 control technology. Only federally registered chemicals will be utilized 

 to control programs and only by the methods of application approved." 

 The bureau will maintain a strong and continuing research effort to find 

 new, improved and selective and humane methods." These quotes were 

 taken from the Animal Damage Control Policy approved on April 13, 1967 

 by then Secretary of Interior Udall. These concepts have been around 

 a long time as you can see. When one considers this fact. Secretary 

 Andrus' policy of November seems far less earth-shaking. The 

 Secretary was simply including some of these concepts in his policy, 

 which are intended to fullfill the Fish and Wildlife Service's 

 responsibility to those whose private property is in some way 

 depreciated by wild animals and also to those who resent any killing or 

 harassment of wild animals by the Fish and Wildlife Service. His policy 

 is intended to guide the Service in fullfilling the role established for it 

 by law. 



That concludes my remarks. If anyone is interested in any of the 

 copies of the documents that I have referred to here, get in touch with 

 me while we are here today and I'll see to it that they're made available 

 to you. Thank you. 



BART O'GARA : Thank you Don. Our next speaker will be the 



President of the National Woolgrowers Association, Marvin Cronberg. 

 He is also the managing editor of The Woolgrower, the association's 

 72-year-old publication. Mr. Cronberg lives in Salt Lake City, where 

 the national association is headquartered. He is a graduate of the 

 University of Wyoming, and a third-generation sheep rancher from 

 Medicine Bow, Wyoming. He's President of the Virginian Corporation, a 

 business enterprise in Wyoming. He served previously as the 

 Intermountain Regional Representative for the National Association of 

 Conservation Districts. He served as the Executive Secretary of the 

 Wyoming State Conservation Association and he is a member of several 

 state and national organizations dealing with rural resources. 



MARVIN CRONBERG : Thanks Bart. I am your talking sheepherder. 



Joe Helle couldn't be here today. He's shearing sheep and he's had 

 some problems up there. Two weekends ago I was home to help my dad 

 shear our sheep and to kind of give you an idea of how this goes, it 

 rained the first day and we were shut off early so the shearing crew, 

 which was a crew out of Texas, all went to town and got drunk. And 

 then the next morning only four of them showed up for work. When 



