Notice of Hearing on the Application to Use Sodium Fluoroacetate ...

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, crp?::er :>rn rne .v?czc > , 3r~cu:ar csul 2i73ri. I , :zs
a;pdrenti;i not dsed in rnls arza ~ r i c r
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sadjum clianiie, tne la~ter i~ the royot. gei-ec, piere .red.
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i. ;ne forqoing makes !t clear chat dara on pre-1372 prodaiion lcsses
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to sheep are fra~nentary and that no sne loss figure is pcssible.
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he most reasonable conclusion, however, is that predation 10~~2s
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<strong>of</strong> sheep are somewhere between 3.6 and 7.J oercsnt reporred in
:he ?eynolls and Gustad surrmariss. Cain, 2t a1 . had questioned tha
Reynolds and Gustad data because it iiilplied thzt precs:!sn :vas a iilajar
causa <strong>of</strong> totas1 losses, which )was quesiioned, becruse <strong>of</strong> ihe s~aristic.1
dis~ricution <strong>of</strong> predztion losses, i .e., only a small ~r3pcortion <strong>of</strong>
ihe producers suffering major predaiian 1 asses.
8. In 1975, a mil questionnaire to determine sheep and iano :asses
to gredatars in 15 western st? .es in 197a !,vas csnducted by the
Statistical &porting Service <strong>of</strong> the U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> Agricul ture
(Agricul tural Econorni c Report No. 369, lpri 1 1977, herei aaftor
Gee, et a1 .). Of 28,000 questionnaires mailed, responses were
received from 8,910 farmers and ranchers or 32 percant representing