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4 - s*dk»n I - kklho Stlt;rt* JoomioI POCATELLO, IDAHO, .SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1972ERNESTLY YOURSA Bag of Worms?By ERNIF STITES •Journal Outdoor EditorBranded anything from atag are trained to control specific STRONG REACTION of worms” to ineffective and ex. animals causing damage, and un- Attempts were being madepensive, and subject to fraud, the der which other animals of the early in the'week to head off Idaho sheepmen's coyote bounty same species would he obllterat- the bill in .the Idaho Senate and bill, designed at the expense of ed in order to remove the few there appears two avenues of Idaho fishermen and hunters, Is pest animals, correction,under fire from sportsmen It is said Mis sour t land own. From Washington, . B.C., around the state. ers have reduced their losses comes word the administrationFrom eastern Idaho to north* to predators by 80 per cent, may rescind the order banning erri Idaho protests are mount tog Coyote bounties are not new, use of poisons and olher con-with comments a bounty law with the period from 1957*60. trols in federal conlrolofpreda-wcmtd slimulate road hunting of termed probably the most costly tors, coyotes in the lowlands, a place in the American bounty system, it is said the While Housewhere Don Coyote is heeded to according to a report on a 10* did not expect the strong reao eat rodents and save grass. It's year study of predator control tton which the order generated also said few coyotes would be by Charles Laun, He said well from the livestock Industry, killed in the high country'where over $2 million was spent each There’s also the likelihood calves and fawns are born be- year on bounties In 1959 and qov, Cecil Andrus will veto the ginning in May, i960, Opponents of bounties be- pjn and call for a study of allt;Labeling the coyote bill HB37S lleve the money was wasted, ter natives to meet the predator a bag of worms” Is James Age* control situation,dius, Lewiston, president of Sec- PUBLIC MAY PAY We expect, too, lhat stockmenond District Idaho Wildlife Fed- Persons on the sidelines hav* will not be wanting hunters witheration, ' fng no apparent interest in the high caliber rifles roaming theirCALLING FOR DEFEAT of ihe results of the coyote bounty properties 12 months of the year, bill, which advanced to the Sen* bill may be shocked to learn More than bullets may be flying.ate on a surprisingly strong vote later that history may repeat ---of 44-22, is the Idaho Environ itself and they will be paying DWORSHAK iTEM ment Council which terms the the bounty from general tax comparing Dworshak Dam andbounty system biologically urv funds, Laun reports the source the errors of the Corps of Armysound as it is aimed at an en* of bounty funds at most complete* Enginet s, and the Bureau oftire species rather than, offend- ly shified to the general public Reclamation’s Teton Dam, StuIng Individuals; most states are (taxes) (or funds during the 10- Murrell, Jerome, regional con*getting away from it after sad year study period, servation officer for the Idahoexperiences; it encourages the a wildlife expert, Durward Fish and Game Department, says myth of The Big Bad Wolf, Allen, author of Our Wildlife they are the same in potential and serves to encourage cruelty Legacy,” believes bounties do and or actual damage to wild, for twlt;to predators, most ofwhomhave not do the Job Intended, He cites life, Bruinsnever tasted leg of mutton, and, a study done in Utah on coyote- Referring to recent stories gon alIn addition, it rsquires pay- sheep relationship of which found about the heavy loss of deer on Angelements of §7.50 per hide to come that reported tosses of sheep Dworshak Dam Reservoir, Mur- __from funds of Idaho Fish and were about double the actual rel! says the Fish and GameGame Department, losses, Department and U.S. Bureau ofNOT TAX DOLLARS Defending the coyote as the sport Fisheries and Wildlife op-Department funds are not tax champion mouser and a saver posed the project when proposed dollars but a dedicated fund, the of the range, Is Phillip Fair- in the 1950s because of adverse source being largely the sale banks, Nampa, who wrote, The effects on big gams, steelhead, of Idaho hunting and fishing U- grand schema to force the Fish and the resident trout. Now the censes. Evidently soma legists.- and Game Department to squand- predicted problems are coming tors find it easy to spend other cr money that is badly needed for true, Murrell says, with the ‘^enr people's money, propagation ■ offish and game is same problems for big game and place'There is a need.for control a disgrace that should bs oppos- resident trout expected on the Llt of specific coyotes, which kill ed by all sportsmen. This bill Teton, ueouslivestock and or insurance cav- should be defeated,'1 Dworshak Dam was proposed secui|UCLStaWiiSAlTheering DEMONSTRATED losses The Bounty Bill Should Be in 1953 to-protect the city of •dDwnt1... a tk A TVS1 VJI 1 L 11 Ia/I G t r / An An T - .. ll m M J _ _ J _ #1 An rlby coyotes, writes the IEC, but Killed is a headline on an Portland and area from flood*secotiit opposes the indiscriminate Idaho Statesman editorial which tng, The Corps of Engineers ba-killing which the bounty system claims The bounty bill would sin report for 1956 shows only wt|would encourage, open a can of worms that would (lye per cent of the water flood- stronSuggested as better than a benefit a few at the expense of mg by Portland came from Northbounty system is the Missouri the majority, It should not be Fork, of Clearwater River. The sPlan” under which land owners passed.11OUT ON A LIMBTennis TravestyWITH ROB ZALESKlA recent article in PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE, written by F,llen Kaye, spotlights the nation's fastest growing sport -tennis. The-article is Interesting In that it cites the advantages in playing the game, and they are numerous. Some excerpts:A lot of people who were never athletes are piaying tennis today. The U,S, court count jumped from two million to eleven million in the past six years and you can’t credit it all to golf defectors. Part of the boom can be attributed to the fact that tennis, which was once a game confined to serious , players, has widened Its base by gradually dispensing with its experts only status. The new anyone-can-play attitude has undoubtedly made a lot of new tennis enthusiasts out of a lot of old duffers.But probably the biggest push for the popularization of the game has come from the readier availability of facilities.In the past few decades, artificial surfaces suitable for the great indoors have bean developed - which led to the indoor . tennis club, which, in turn, gave a tot of people who never had the opportunity before a chance to play. Obviously a game 5'ou can play 12 months a year, relatively cheaply, without budging from home territory, has it all over one that’s dependent onthe vagaries of local weather.“If participatory tennis - for whatever reason - has snowballed in'the past few years; tennis watching h3s certainly kept pace. A recent Harris survey reported that of all the spectator sports fjns follow, the largest percentage improvement was for tennis. UpawhooplngS per cent was the estimation, with hockey the closest follower with C per cent, and baseball at the tail-end with a I per cant decrease.However, according to a local tennis player — Jayson . Holladay - Pocatello has not kept pace with the boom. He writes:Pocatello ts now challenging both Boise and Ogden with . its tennis eminence, notwithstanding an almost studied neglect by the city in maintaining tennis facilities for tire average player, who neither belongs to I he University Racquet Club or com-petes for Idaho State University or the two high schools,Last summer, I had the occasion to play on the Hawthorne Tennis Courts, and was appalled at the rundown condition of the courts, and the presence of roeks and broken glass on the playing surfaces. Notwithstanding this fact, the courts were being used by residents of the neighborhood, all • of whom were .obviously enthusiastic about the game. Anyway, I overheard one participant mention thatthecity of Pocatello spent more money each month on light globes and electricity for the baseball program, lhanthetolalouttay for tennisIn the community.Pocatello High School, for example, has an excellent tennis team and a coach dedicated to this lifetime sport. Nevertheless, there are no municipal facilities adequate enough to sustain tennis practice for the Pocatello team.. For the past four or five years, the University Racquet Club has made its private facilities available io the PocateHd varsity team The pressure on the tennis courts at the Racquet Club is becoming so Intense, (hat this Is the last year the high school . .team will be able to use the private facilities,Accordingly,- it is more than a municipal responsibility ' and concern - It should be a priority for the school system as’ WeI1‘ It is a-travesty of the first magnitude to drlve aroundifCorps seized the opportunity, jai requested §158 million of taxpay- pQint er money for project construe-tion, a figure now stretched to fensi $250 millionplus $5,8 million for ^awfi Dworshak steelhead hatchery, Ini Murrell said. WasPREDICTIONS TRUE Mlt;jG Joint studies showed the Danj people would lose 717,000 square yards of spawning gravel for T| anadromous and resident fish, fjrs] the dam would completely block the North Fork to anadramaus fish; hundreds of miles of trlbu- y^i tary streams would lose their juvenile steelhead population; 15,000 acres of big game winter, range would be inundated, resulting in the loss of about half an estimated herd of 3,000 white-tail deer, and one*slxth of one of the large elk herds In Idaho, anddisrupt traditional migration routes.The Corps of Engineers Is said to have promised purchase of 12,000 acres of private land to replace feeding areas lost by flooding, but to date has done little or nothing about keeping the promise.We read stories of. hundreds of deer falling through Ihe ice on the slowly-filling reservoir, of co?ote attacks on deer fallen on the ice,-and next year the upper areas will be reached with telling loss of elk, first of annual occurrances.OF TETON, MURRELL says the game numbers.are smaller with an actual count of 1,100 mid probably more deer.In ihe Teton Canyon, which will be flooded. River fishing will be heavily affected, the species being largely the native cutthroat trout already ’ being pushed to heavily declining numbers in a few streams.AH of these losses are coming at a time when sportsmen are complaining our big game herds are In short supply, Murrell writes.As a Fish and Game Department employe, I do not feel we (the department) should take the blame for the effect of projects sponsored by Ihe Corps of Engineers or Bureau of Reclamation,” Murrell said,This is particularly true when we have Informed (lie public of the adverse effects these projects will have on our wildlife resources prior lo their authorization by Congress. If Ihe people decide the oilier benefits of the project outweigh the wildlife losses, this is their value judgment, However, they cannot expect to have the wildlife and the project too.
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Idaho State Journal
Pocatello, Idaho, US
Sun, Feb 27, 1972
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