Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The fat, waddling, brown-black-&-yellowish-white, bead-eyed, strong-toothed, sharp-quilled porcupine of the West (erethizon epixanthum) has been protected for years for the same reason that porcupines are protected in the North and East: it is the one animal of the forest which man, lost in the...
The U. S. Biological Survey has now declared war on the western porcupine. It has issued a leaflet describing methods for killing porcupines, by shooting or poisoning with a 16-to-1 salt-strychnine mixture (placed where cattle will not get it).
Western porcupines migrate slowly, deliberately in the spring from their dens in the mountain lava cliffs to the valley farms, returning in the autumn. It is during these travels that they gnaw the butts of pine trees great and small. In some sections a huntsman would have no trouble killing...
Going the way of the buffaloes are the great bears of America. California, onetime home of the great grizzly, has none left. Neighboring Oregon is said to have one, Washington five. Alaska, last refuge of the grizzly and the even greater Kadiak brown bear may soon be as bearless as...
One day last week a stocky, swarthy, middle-aged man ate luncheon, as was his wont, in the Coffee Shoppe of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. When he was finished he bought a cigar and a form sheet for that afternoon's horse races at Washington Park. Smoking and reading...