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Shoshone, Lincoln Co. Idaho, Dec. 23, 1935
Sheep men voted to use this same money,
given them by the Biological Survey, in a poisoning
campaign up in the Sawtooth. They bought 85
horses at 10 dollars a head, drove them to
scattered spots along the length of the
range, and used them as coyote bait. They
did not poison the carcasses directly, but
scattered several hundred small pills of mutton
fat, impregnated with strychnine around the
immediate vicinity of the carcass. If One
can imagine how many weasels, martin, fox
and other predators were poisoned by this
method to every one coyote. Garner was
very bitter against the sheep men, not only
because they assertedly had stolen three hundred
dollars from him in this way, but also
because they had killed many times this
amount worth of fur by the poisoning
campaign which ensued.
I was advised to consult Mr. J.M. Wright,
The local game warden at Bellview for
information on trappers in the vicinity. Some
of the birds that he knew were in the
Sawtooth around Hailey were Rosbust, Bald
Eagle, Duck Hawk, and two or three species
of Grouse.
A Kingfisher was seen fishing in Big Woods River.