Field notes, v1701
Page 133
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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.