Twining 1936 Hanley, Blaine Co., Idaho. Jan 6, 1936 thermometer was at -12° F this morning at 8:00 A.M. and has not risen above 0° all day. Spent most of the day indoors discussing assorted topics with Linderman, but the conversation centered mainly around trapping, and effect of poisoning and sheep grazing wild life. Linderman by some sort of logic or another can attribute most of the country's ills to grazing of sheep, or poisoning by sheep men. He says that the sheep men, by paying half the expenses of poisoning operations, keep the Biological Survey in the position of a department subordinate to their wishes. He knows that poisoning as a means of ridding the country of coyotes is almost useless. A coyote is one animal which is too intelligent to be poisoned. A coyote immediately suspects a poisoned carcass and if he does eat from the carcass, he can taste the bitterness of the strychnine and will spit it out. After one coyote has been killed by the poison and lies nearby, other coyotes will not touch the poisoned meat. He believes that a poisoned carcass will kill ten other predatory animals such as skunk, marten, weasel, fox, and bobcat, to one coyote.