Hunting Down Stock Killers. 



299 



Killers Killed. 



The following statement shows, by States, the number 

 of true predatory animals — the chief live-stock destroyers — 

 which have been killed and their skins or scalps secured from 

 the time the work was initiated, July 1, 1915, to June 30, 

 1920, a period of five fiscal years. The table does not in- 

 clude the large number of animals poisoned, as no complete 

 record can be obtained of those that travel so far before 

 the poison takes effect that they can not be located in time 

 to secure skin or scalp. The large numbers of coyote 

 carcasses found by stockmen while riding the range follow- 

 ing poisoning operations afford strong evidence in support 

 of the estimate which has been made by the Biological Survey 

 that the animals thus destroyed equal in number the total 

 of all those killed by other means and included in this 

 table. 



Predatory animals destroyed in Biological Survey and cooperative 

 campaigns from the initiation of the work, July 1, 1915, to June 30, 

 1920 (not including animals poisoned). 



States. 



True predatory animals killed. 



Bears. 



Bobcats 



and 

 lynxes. 



Coyotes. 



Moun- 

 tain 

 lions. 



Wolves. 



Total. 



Year 

 coopera- 

 tive 

 work 



was 

 begun. * 



Arizona 



Arkansas 



California 



Colorado 



Idaho 



Montana 



Nevada 



New Mexico. . . 

 North Dakota. 



Oklahoma 



Oregon 



South Dakota. 



Texas 



Utah 



Washington. . . 

 Wyoming 



Total. 



317 



695 

 12 



796 



372 

 1,323 



360 

 4,268 

 1,237 



3,711 



182 



1,742 

 58 

 1,763 

 2,141 

 254 

 344 



3,961 

 5,447 

 12, 747 

 .5,202 

 23,286 

 6,056 

 337 

 8 



8,594 

 794 

 10, 321 

 14,509 

 8,362 

 6,011 



146 

 17 



21 

 141 



109 

 75 

 287 

 4 



385 



73 

 16 

 23 

 1,283 

 142 



4,751 

 29 

 4,793 

 5,9S5 

 14, 188 

 5,875 

 27,582 

 7,901 

 337 

 90 

 10,444 

 876 

 13, 373 

 16,883 

 8,641 

 6,765 



15,374 



109,346 



540 



2,936 



128,513 



1919 



None. 

 1919 

 1918 



None. 

 1918 

 1916 

 1918 

 1920 



None. 

 1920 



None. 

 1918 

 1918 

 1918 

 1918 



* The date refers to the fiscal year ended June 30 in each case. 



