E.W. B. Richardson 1938 67 General Account 300 COYOTES, BOBCATS TAKEN IN TRAPPER CAMPAIGN IN FOOTHILLS SPRINGVILLE, Apr. 22.—Gordon True, chief biologist of the San Francisco office of the Fish and Game Commission, and speaker at the banquet of the Porterville Fish and Game Protection Association Monday evening, was in the Milo district inspecting the work being done in the coyote trapping project under the supervision of O. R. Shaw. During the past thirteen months that Shaw has been in this district he has reported the destruction of slightly more than three hundred coyotes and wild cats. This has been of untold benefit to the stock men, especially those raising hogs, and to the poultry raisers. Before this eradication project was begun, poultry, hogs, sheep, calves and occasionally even a cow, were destroyed, the losses amounting to hundreds of dollars a year in this district alone. Shaw, who has charge of this work from Tehachapi to Lake Tahoe, has just returned from Yosemite Valley, where he has placed two trappers. He now has men at intervals along the mountain regions now accessible and will place more as they are available. As the season advances these men will be placed in the higher mountains as a measure to prevent the destruction of the deer and other game in the mountain regions. Clipping from Porterville Evening Record, April 20 1937 ?