toxicants in rodent control, and a number more connected with aerial 

 hunting. The tools that we need and we are asking for will not damage 

 the environment nor endanger your life nor contaminate your food, air, 

 water or soil. They will, in fact, enhance the productive capacity of 

 our wild land. We have proposed a seven-point program which is our 

 perspective on the future of the animal damage control effort. 



1. Transfer of all ADC responsibilities to the USDA with full 

 authority to operate ADC programs on public land. 



2. Continue to research non-lethal control techniques, including 

 the practicality, economic feasibility and effectiveness. 



3. Preventive lethal control where livestock producers request 

 assistance to stop predator damage. 



4. Immediate accelerated research on Compound 1080, its use in 

 large and small baits and in the toxic collar. 



5. Control selective use of 1080 on private lands. 



6. Emergency use of 1080 on public lands when losses exceed two 

 percent, with emergency approval under the authority of the ADC 

 Program administering agency. Thank you. 



BART O'GARA : Okay, our next speaker is Jim Zumbo. Jim was 



born in New York state and received an Associate of Applied Sciences 

 degree in Forestry at Paul Smith's College in New York. He received a 

 bachelor of Science in Forestry and Wildlife from Utah State in 1964. 

 He was Game Manager for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for 

 eight years and wildlife biologist for BLM in Vernal, Utah for four 

 years. He became the full time western editor with OUTDOOR LIFE 

 magazine in 1978. Jim. 



JIM ZUMBO : Thank you. Well, here I am. We have heard two 



panelists. Don kind of gave a middle-of-the-road federal policy 

 approach and Marv talked about some of the problems with coyotes so I 

 guess I'm supposed to play the devil's advocate here and sort of be the 

 pro-coyote guy. Well, I'm probably going to disappoint you although 

 I'm not going to follow whatever I'm supposed to be doing on that, 

 whatever that title talk was. I am a hunter and a trapper, besides an 

 outdoor writer and when I'm lucky I trap four or five coyotes a year 

 and when I'm damn lucky I kill eight or ten with predator calls, but I 

 think we've got some problems with the present animal damage control 

 techniques and philosophies. At least I think we do. I just wrote a 

 piece for OUTDOOR LIFE. I just found out four days ago it was 

 formally accepted. It's called 'Coyote - A National Shame' and I was 

 going to bring it over here and read it but it's copyrighted so I 

 couldn't, but at any rate some of this that I'm going to tell you is 

 taken from that piece. 



Mr. Hanson made some comments yesterday about selective coyote 

 control and the way he said it I think he was somewhat cynical and I'd 

 like to say that I know a lot of sheep men and I know a lot of 

 cattlemen, both as a wildlife biologist with the BLM and as a hunter, 

 and I'd like to say that his comments are not felt that way by all 



