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Turning
1936
Hailey, Elaine Co. Jan 6, 1936.
Lindeman knows several trappers who were
once violently opposed to poisoning, but who
immediately accepted the position of poisoner
for the Biological Survey at $50 a month.
He also is cynical about the future of
wild life as a whole. Wild life in the
Eastern States has already been almost
eliminated by the inroads of civilization and
now the resources of the West must slowly
go. Twenty-fives or thirty years ago the
Wood River valley was a trappers paradise,
and now, mainly because of the grazing
of sheep, the country can hardly support
a single trapper. The only way to bring
back wild life to a vestige of their former
state is to bar sheep from National Forests,
and restrict sheep grazing to private lands.
Jan 7, 1936.
Returned to Bellevue this morning with
Davis. In the afternoon I hiked along the
small ditch bordering Wood River Valley on
the east side for about two miles. Shot
2 Junco and a Song Sparrow, and saw
one Flicker and several Magpies. In the
valley next to the river just west of
Bellevue I came on the main flock of