Thompson 147 Bryce Natl. Park June 3, 1931. Poole Point trip with Cope & Dixon. Cope said that most of the traps contained dead poison No. 4 Coyote traps were used: Mr. Dixon is in favor of bonds here to passify pacify the sheep men, on the assumption that few cougars would be caught. On the other hand, if steel traps were used, no cougar might be caught & the poison controlled simultaneously. The reason this seems unjustifiable to me is that a strip of land 3 miles wide & 20 miles long, could not be a serious breeding ground for roving animals, especially where they are hunted all around this narrow strip. Biological Survey hunters were here last year but got no lions, so far as we can find out. One of their signs was still posted at the natural bridge. We took the sign! Mt. Bluebird nest with 5 eggs found in dead stump in valley, el. 8300 ft.