CHAPTER XIV 
GRAY WOLVES AND COYOTES 
Tue time has gone by when the farmer in the 
eastern half of the United States has to guard 
his stock and perhaps his family against wolves 
as in the days of his forefathers. In the north- 
ern parts of Canada, however, in the forested 
parts of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and: 
Minnesota, and in scattered localities through- 
out the whole Northwest, and thence northward 
to the Arctic regions, the great gray or timber 
wolf is still a menace to the ranchman if not 
to the cultivator of fields. It also causes the 
destruction of great numbers of game—espe- 
cially deer,—which can ill be spared; and now 
and then attacks travelers or their horses when 
picketed out at night. 
Consequently ranchmen are everywhere mak- 
ing détermined codperative efforts, aided by 
the government, to kill them off, by breaking 
up their dens and trapping and poisoning the 
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