Shoshone, Lincoln Co., Idaho Dec. 23, 1935 becoming more and more difficult to trap each year. Deer, he said, are now relatively scarce due to excessive competition with sheep. A few years ago it was not uncommon to see roving bands of 50 or more deer in winter on the plains, as far south as Shoshone. The Sawtooth had now ceased to be a haven for wild life. Fur-bearers once plentiful had been so crowded by sheep that the few trappers that now remained had a difficult time making a large enough winters catch to pay expenses. The entire length of the Sawtooth had been trampled and cropped bare of grass by excessive numbers of sheep. In a few spots game preserves had been set aside, mainly to provide winter feed for deer, but sheep men were con- tinually encroaching on these areas, often stopping for a week or more, and allowing the sheep to desecrate the area, when they were supposed to not stop for more than a day. The Biological Survey he considered no more than a tool in the hands of the sheep men. Last year the sheep men turned a tousand dollars into a bounty for coyote scalps. Garnier trapped and shot more than 100 coyotes in a month. The day before he turned the scalps in to the Biological Survey, the