may limit access to millions of additional acres. Many of the hunting, 

 fishing and recreation areas you have enjoyed in the past will be 

 off-limits. You will be a criminal trespasser on land where you once 

 warfked free. Idaho Woolgrowers Association." In other words, the 

 woolgrowers were using sportsmen as pawns. They wanted us to write 

 to the Department of the Interior and tell them that we needed to have 

 1080 back and in all due respect Marv, I thought it was a very cheap 

 shot. 



Now back to Dick Randall. I'm going to tell you that Randall is 

 with Defenders of Wildlife and he went from one extreme to the other. 

 And Randall has this document which I understand he has brought up 

 at many hearings in Washington--under oath--and I assume it's a 

 credible document and I can't prove it is or isn't. But he analyzed 

 some results of 1080 that he personally used when he was a government 

 trapper. And out of 37 wildlife species, or rather 37 total animals and 

 birds, here is a breakdown of what he found that was positively killed 

 by his 1080 base: One dog, four coyotes, eight badgers, two bobcats, 

 two pine martens, one mink, one weasel, six golden eagles, one 

 red-tailed hawk, four magpies, two prairie falcons, two unidentified 

 hawks, one sharp-shinned hawk, one Canadian jay and one red-legged 

 hawk. 



I'd like to talk a little it about coyote biology and not very much, 

 but just a little. There was a study done in Texas that attempted to 

 determine the productivity of coyotes in areas where they are being 

 intensively harvested, let's say. Okay. In one area there was 

 intensive coyote control by all means. Coyotes were having six young 

 per litter. In another area in Texas, another study area with 

 absolutely no control, they were having three per litter which indicates 

 that the more that we havest coyotes, the more they are going to 

 produce and we are just not simply getting at the problem. And I 

 don't know what the answer is folks, I really don't. 



I'd like to relate an incident that happened right outside of Vernal 

 where I live, just six months ago, and again, I don't know what the 

 answer is but I just want to bring it to your attention. We talked 

 about the old coyote getters, the 38's that have been outlawed with 

 President Nixon's ban. Well, I know the sheepherders didn't throw 

 their coyote getters away. That'd be naive to think they did and 

 they've also probably got a little bit of thymine or strychnine around, 

 why not? Well, last November a BLM employee was walking across a 

 beaver dam with his labrador retriever on public land and the dog 

 grabbed something and there was a noise and the dog ran off yelping 

 and he had tripped a getter which had just been freshly set there. Of 

 course, the old getters being illegal, there was no signs around. The 

 dog did not get the full charge and was very sick for a couple of days. 

 Okay, two weeks later a scout master was in the same area (and I know 

 this man as he lives about four blocks from me) with four boy scouts. 

 They were rabbit hunting. They went to bed that night and the scout 

 master had a german shepherd dog with him and the dog never ran 

 very far from camp. About ten minutes after he went out of the tent, 

 the dog came back running around the tent, breathing heavily and the 



