the crew boss went to get the other seven of them back on the job, 

 five of them quit, so we ended up with only five guys shearing one 

 day. We turned out about 500 that day. It snowed that afternoon. 

 Th<€ herder we had in town who normally takes the sheep up from the 

 corrals and waters them and feeds them, went to town and got drunk 

 and stayed drunk all the next day. We had to go get the deputy 

 sheriff to throw him in jail to dry him out. Anyway, what I am trying 

 to point out is that it took a week to do what normally takes three days 

 and that's the reason Joe Helle can't be here. He called me the other 

 day and he said, "We got rained out yesterday and all those damned 

 shearers went to town and got drunk." It sounded like listening to a 

 record. 



Of course sheep people, we don't have any credibility and my talk 

 now is referenced and footnoted and in all the instances where I quote 

 data or statistics you may refer to that data and you might contact my 

 office or you can write to the author of the article if you need more 

 details. But Secretary Andrus said recently, down in Texas, that 

 we're narrow-minded and of course everybody knows that we 

 exaggerate, that's been printed many times. And we also fall into some 

 of those categories that were listed yesterday I am sure. So what I'm 

 saying to you is that the remarks in this talk are pretty well 

 documented. There's very little editorialization in it, and I feel quite 

 comfortable with it. Consequently, I'm going to have to stick pretty 

 close to it. I'm not going to be able to tell too many sheepherder 

 stories while I'm up here. 



I guess what some people might expect from a woolgrower in this 

 situation would be that you would anticipate me to say that we favor 

 total eradication of the coyote, that we want to eliminate the eagles, 

 that we'd like to have poison on every section of land in the West and 

 really we intend to overgraze every square inch of public and private 

 land because that's generally how we have been characterized. 

 However, that stereo typed sheep man does not exist in the National 

 Woolgrowers Association and its members do not support any of these 

 positons. The truth of the matter is that we resent being placed in 

 that position or painted in the character of being environmental 

 dispoilers. We don't think we are. What we really want is the right to 

 protect our private property and the means to do that. Now, to get to 

 the posture and perspective of the National Woolgrowers, I've got to go 

 back a little bit in history and kind of bring you up to date and 

 acquaint you with some of the frustrations that we have suffered along 

 the way. 



In 1964, the Leopold Report charged that the federal program was 

 indiscriminate and nonselective and there was excessive predator 

 control. The Leopold Committee criticized the leg-hold trap as being 

 nonselective and the cause for much unnecessary loss of wildlife. 

 However, the committee concluded that when properly applied. 

 Compound 1080 meat baits were effective and humane in the control of 

 coyotes and it had very little adverse effects on other wildlife. Now 

 that's an important point because the selection of the continued use of 

 Compound 1080 was not at the behest of the woolgrower community. It 



