. First report of game and fish warden for New Mexico. 1909-1910-1911 . rhaps, the most destructive of all these savage creatures that roam the vasttracts of unbroken forests, and hide in the rocky canyons where the hunter findsdifficulty in tracking the wary marauder into those hidden haunts he knows sowell. It is estimated by students of the habits of these destructive animals thatone mountain lion will kill a deer each week, a statement that will occasion sur-prise among those who only know this wily brute as one of the wild creatures ofthe west, or a rare specimen captured for exhi])ition
. First report of game and fish warden for New Mexico. 1909-1910-1911 . rhaps, the most destructive of all these savage creatures that roam the vasttracts of unbroken forests, and hide in the rocky canyons where the hunter findsdifficulty in tracking the wary marauder into those hidden haunts he knows sowell. It is estimated by students of the habits of these destructive animals thatone mountain lion will kill a deer each week, a statement that will occasion sur-prise among those who only know this wily brute as one of the wild creatures ofthe west, or a rare specimen captured for exhi])ition in the red Avagon of thecircus parade. In evidence of the destructive tendencies of the mountain lion, I would statethat word was recently received at this office that Stephen .Arnold, a ranchman onthe upper Pecos, had lost fourteen colts and one full grown horse, killed by thesenoxious anii^jals this last year. As a matter of fact, the ruinous operations of the mountain lion constituteone of the ])roblems for solution by thi^^ department. The only method of at least. REPORT OF GAME AND FISH WARDEN FOR NEW MEXICO. 27 les^inino- the depredations of this destroj-er of game, as well as others of his class,sucii as the bob cat and lobo wolf, is to put a sufficiently large price on his head toinduce lovers of big game hunting to make strenuous effort toward his elimina-tion. Jhe bob cat, conunonly known as tlie wild cat, is another predatory animalthat is very destructive to the smaller wild game, the greatest sufferers from hisdepredations being the turkey and the grouse; he has been known also to killfawn, when his cunning in the capture of his favorite food failed to meet thedemands of his appetite. Still another carniverous and baneful animal is the lo1)o wolf, a species notuncommon in New ]\Iexico. Jhis free Ijooter is an enemy to the sheep herds, oneranchman in Torrance county being reported to have lost as many as three hundredsheep in a single night, as a result of the blood
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