. Biennial report, Montana Game and Fish Commission, State of Montana. Montana Fish and Game Commission; Game protection; Wildlife conservation; Fisheries. MONTANA STATE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 53 For these reasons state and government hunters have been instructed to kill the adults. Game and stock protection should begin by ridding the country of the animals destroying these resources—and that means the adults. The pups can be exterminated each spring, yet if the old ones are not killed it simply means that the slaughter goes on unabated. It requires a nice fat lamb to feed one litter of pup
. Biennial report, Montana Game and Fish Commission, State of Montana. Montana Fish and Game Commission; Game protection; Wildlife conservation; Fisheries. MONTANA STATE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 53 For these reasons state and government hunters have been instructed to kill the adults. Game and stock protection should begin by ridding the country of the animals destroying these resources—and that means the adults. The pups can be exterminated each spring, yet if the old ones are not killed it simply means that the slaughter goes on unabated. It requires a nice fat lamb to feed one litter of pups. In 1917 a hunter employed by the Biological Survey, assisted by the inspector, located a den of coyote pups near the Bearley and Williams ranch on the Ruby river. They were informed by Mr. Bearley that a coyote had taken a lamb from the flock every morning for two weeks. The first morning the hunters were at the ranch they located the den. They desti'oyed five fat pups and the female. Many more lambs would have been required to feed this family and after they were wiped out the killing stopped. This is but one of hundreds of similar in- stances revealing the reason for the enthusiasm of stockmen over the cooperation employed by state and government hunters. Wolves, like mountain lions or cougars, are becoming scarce as the years go by. Very few wolves are left on the range. But each year some one of the hunters picks up an old straggler that has lost his or her mate the preceding year. It will be but a few years until the Montana wolf will be seen only in the museums or parks where they are being raised for experimental purposes. This work has actually begun in several eastern states. The offspring from the Mon- tana and Wyoming gray wolves are shipped to Europe by breeders who secure their stocks from Montana hunters. The mountain lion is likewise fast disappearing. Specially trained lion hunters have been working on them since 1921. During the first six months C E. Beebe
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