Zurich Herald, 1956-06-07, Page 7'4
Manley Miner On
Predator Control
In the issue of November 22,
1954 of Sports Illustrated, an
article appeared by Durward
L. Allen entitled "Killing Preda-
tors Won't Increase the Game."
This was copied by several
State owned Conservation mag-
azines. Manly F. Miner, son of
the late Jack Miner, makes the
following reply:
In the spring of 1954 some-
thing came to our Sanctuary,
slight after night for fourteen
nights in succession, each time
taking a mallard duck off her
nest. Not only did the creature
devour the duck, but also the
setting of eggs beneath her, num-
bering from fourteen to eigh-
teen. At the time we did not
lmow what type of predator it
could be that would have such
a food hunger as this, and as it
would not come to exactly the
same spot a second time we had
to set traps near other live
ducks on their nests; thus we
were unalYle to catch this pre-
dator until, as already stated,
this destruction had gone on for
fourteen nights. It turned out to
be a mother raccoon weighing
i!learly twenty-five pounds. Had
we not caught and destroyed
this predator, not only she, but
also every one •of her offspring,
would be creating the same
havoc this spring. This being
the case, I surely cannot agree
with Mr. Allen when he con-
tends that "Killing predators
will not increase game." The
fact is that this one coon de-
stroyed not only fourteen mother
ducks, or breeders; but also de-
stroyed fully two hundred duck
eggs. Had these eggs been left
to hatch and mature, without
danger from predators, from the
egg stage to full-grown birds,
it would have meant an increase
of perhaps one hundred and
fifty ducks.
Then look at the timber wolf
bituation in northern Ontario.
1 was with my late father when
we saw thirty-eight Red Deer
in one day. Timber wolves came
in and increased — a species of
timber wolf that some weigh
aiearly one hundred pounds. The
next fall, during late October
or early November when there
was only one inch or so of
snow, we tracked different packs
of these wolves; and their tracks
led us to as many as thirteen
deer carcasses in one clay, mostly
does (females) and fawns. 1 am
advised that in some areas today
there is not a deer track to be
seen, let alone a deer. Yet look
at Pennsyvania and Michigan,
where there are no timber wol-
ves. In these two States, in the
face of an army of hunters each
fall, it has been found necessary
to permit the females to be shot
in order to reduce the herds to
reasonable numbers.
Let us consider the pheasant
situation: Pelee Island, in Lake
Erie, is only some eight or ten
miles from my home, which has
enabled me to observe the situa-
tion there at first hand and
continuously. The numbers of
pheasants have increased during
the last twenty-five years from
the start of two dozen birds. On
the island named, only a few
square miles in extent but where
thereare no predators, pheasants
have become so numerous that
during , the last ten or more
year s, one thousand hunters
have harvested approximately
fifteen thousand (15,000) cock
birds annually; and lately it has
become necessary to allow hen
birds to be shot in order to re-
duce the flocks, which in spite
of the previous great annual
slaughter continued to increase.
Think of the great estates in
both England and Scotland. On
some of these the game pre-
serve dates back three hundred,
or more years; and during that
time gatekeepers have controlled
the predators both night and
day. The result is that pheasant
and grouse are so numerous that
sportsmen go from New York
and other parts of America, each
fall, to hunt. One autumn, a few
years ago, five New York
sportsmen shot four thousand
grouse on one of the estates, or
moors, in Scotland, in a single
week. With the excellent habi-
tat that exists in countless • less
populated areas of the vast
stretches of North America, why
should our sportsmen have to
journey to the small island of
Great Britain to behold a pleni-
tude of game. or to the ten
LIGHTEST GLIDER TO CARRY RIDER — Charles Hillburn, left, and
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STILL IN THE RUNNING - Benjamin A. Trimble, a former slave,
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hood children in Tacoma, Wash. Trimble says he can still out-
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square miles of Pelee Island?
They would not need to if the
same amount of money were
expended in predator control as
is paid several of our University
professors and game manage-
ment biologists who are going
through the country telling us
"we will have just as much
game in the fall no matter how
much is killed by the predator
in the winter, spring and sum-
mer months."
It seems so inconsistent to
have laws allowing you and me
one or two days in the fall in
which `to shoot pheasants and
other game, yet protecting pre-
dators that commit the same act
of killing on every one of the
three hundred and sixty - five
days of the year! And why lean
back on the old argument that
"Nature will balance itself,"
when the fact of the matter is
that man, having upset Nature's
balance, ought to be held re-
sponsible for restoring that bal-
'"ance. The predator situation has
become still more grievous lately
because of the low prices paid
for raw furs; during the last
ten or more years the packs
of timber wolves and hordes of
skunks, weasels and other pre-
dators, have increased out of
all proportion to the herds of
game. And that is saying noth-
ing of the increase in the flocks
of crows and magpies which for
three months of each year live
practically entirely on the eggs
of other birds.
Most certainly we need habi-
tat, food and shelter for our
wild life; but what good are
all these if ninety-four nests
out of one hundred and twenty-
three (94 out of 123) nests are
going to be destroyed in the
egg stage by egg -eating preda-
tors? This is the true situation,
as has been authentically re-
yealed by the research biolo-
gists of North Dakota, last year.
Most certainly, upon contem-
plating the foregoing facts —
and many others equally pertin-
ent which I can, or could, re-
late I am impelled to repeat
that I do not agree with Mr.
Durward L. Allen when he
writes, "Killing Predators Won't
Increase the Game."
the
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