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the carcass and verified th3 czus? <strong>of</strong> death. Secause the bodizs <strong>of</strong>
some missing lambs ?re never found, Mr. Devlin testified that it
was quits possibl~! that his predation losses wzrz even high~r
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'52. fir. Edward 3. S~zi~h, a sheep and cattle rancher frcm Cagmar,
Mon~ana, a ,'Jcnzan? 5 x 2 Senacor and a wi tness for ',~iycrni ng , 3 t a: . ,
testified that in 1975 he so:d his entir? flock <strong>of</strong> sheep zft3r
, losing 96 <strong>of</strong> 500 1am3s to coyotos, nearly 3 2'3 percenr loss. ?2
further testified t5at from the time Ccnpound 1080 oaic staticns
lwer: 7laczd on his -3nch in 11247 ~ ntii zhe use 07 1 OSC Ittias sanned
in 1972, he aid not 135s a sing12 lamb To 9reda:;on. :+e sza'sd
that his losses <strong>of</strong> lambs to coyoces ([,ere i O percznt ; n 1373.
Smith acknowledged that he maintained no records ~f caus2s <strong>of</strong>
losses <strong>of</strong> lambs and ;ha;. the foregoing loss percenxges 'filere f:-zn
memory.
53.' Mr. Joe T. Helle, a sheep and cattle rancher fron Dillon, Montana,
subnitt~d a table showing the total lamb losses between docking and
shipping in the fa11 were 5:8 percent in 1967, 12.2 percent in 1974,
19.1 percent in 1975, 14.2 percent in 1976, 12.8 percent in 1977 and
8.1 percgnt in 1981 . He attri outed the increase in losses after 1972
to predation, in particular coyotes, and the increas? in coyote
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SVLZ :i ?? :c 7ng 335 nn ;:e us? cf ':c;-ilpo.,r,a I ,;a. ,7j :nc;gr, EL 2 2 ~ r 1 i 22
that herders kept records <strong>of</strong>. predac~r losses on sumer ranges, he
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