Rapid City Journal from Rapid City, South Dakota • 20

Rapid City Journal B8 Regional Wednesday, April 14, 1993 School ballot issues BLM targets 'serial killer coyotes' Expanded board Voting by district efforts must be aimed at specific predators, not predators in general, and environmental concerns must be considered. "Obviously, if you've got a serial killer coyote out there, you've got to take some action and that would be warranted," Almand said. "There's probably a very thin line between doing what's right and going overboard. We've got to stay on the right side." BLM policy requires annual predator control plans, the biologist said, to ensure that control is balanced and sound. For instance, some public lands are off limits to certain measures, like poisons, for human safety.

"The last thing we want is some chaotic approach where (people) take things into their own hands," he said. "We've seen enough in the history of the West to know the kind of problems that can lead to." In Wyoming, some livestock offi perwork was not current. Until all BLM districts can update their paperwork, only emergency control is allowed, as defined by field offices in the western states. Livestock groups, who call the ban an "absolute disaster," are lobbying for broad emergen.cy control provisions. Montana BLM spokesman Dave Wester said emergency control would be allowed "in response to ongoing predation" of livestock.

Wyoming BLM spokesman Jay Guerin said officials in Wyoming were still working on guidelines to define when emergency action would be permitted. But Susan Hagooti of the Humane Society said her group would watch "very closely" to be sure emergency measures did not permit "business as usual." David Almand, BLM wildlife and fisheries chief, said any emergency BILLINGS, Mont. (AC) The Bureau of Land Management says it will continue to go after coyotes killing sheep, despite a ban on routine predator control. But the animal would have to be a "serial killer coyote" or the like to justify action, agency officials say. Last week, the BLM's Washington headquarters ordered field offices to halt routine predator control on much of BLM's land in the West, including all land the agency administers in Wyoming and Montana.

The order came after the Humane Society of the United States filed appeals arguing that eight BLM districts were authorizing predator control work under outdated plans and environmental reviews. While the agency was forced to shut down predator control only in those eight districts, it stopped such work in all BLM districts where pa Politicians want more time to plan for aviation museum o5 CO CCS Cd c5 Ward 1 Ward 1 Prec "ct 1 '2b 77 Precinct 1 169 36 2 237 132 2 313 60 3 365 173 P-ecet 3 446 83 Ward 2 Ward 2 net 1 296 172 p-k -ct 1 3S2 96 orec-oct 155 72 Pr-i -ct 2 33 e. -Kl 3 191 3 162 Ward 3 Ward 3 Prec'ict 1 122 S5 1 US 72 Prec.nct 2 239 193 2 250 185 P-ecnct 3 324 323 Fr-c net 3 333 289 P'ecmcM 391 359 4 233 412 Ward 4 Ward 4 PreCTCt 1 207 1 1S 1 273 45 P-ec PCt 2 251 1C8 Precnct 2 310 54 P'ec net 3 97 64 Precnct 3 133 26 p-ecnct 4 82 17 4 84 16 Ward 5 Ward 5 1 164 127 Precmct 1 180 116 p'ecmct 2 323 290 Precinct 2 376 250 r-ec'-c: 3 395 335 P-ecmct 3 394 356 School precincts School precincts 0 Ga-nens 9 49 ReuMe Gardens 84 53 27 20 Og'-cn 26 20 "jH id 177 52 Ran'd Va'lev 210 27 jck Hawk 107 37 Black Havk 113 32 S6 58 1C3 45 Total 4.496 1 3,037 Total 5,148 2,468 Investigation into eagle disturbance closed Dan Schaefer, Aurora Mayor Paul Tauer and Denver Mayor Wellington Webb are lobbying for more time to devise a proposal for the museum. The plan calls for moving the museum into Lowry hangars and privatizing its management. The museum now has its own building on the base The Air Force now runs the Lowry Heritage Museum, which displays modern and vintage aircraft and draws 20,000 visitors a year.

The exhibits are on loan from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio but have been at Lowry for years. cials are concerned that federal trappers will be little help if they cannot venture onto BLM lands, where many ranchers are now tending sheep. Wyoming's Predatory Animal Board will meet soon to discuss whether local boards should hire their own trappers with money they now pay federal trappers. Industry officials suggest such independent efforts would be immune from BLM rules, just like sportsmen who hunt on public land. But Almand said there was a big difference, since predator control is done to benefit the livestock industry, which is regulated by the BLM.

"We cannot allow a county board, a state department of agriculture or whatever to initiate predator control on BLM lands and just sit by without ensuring it's done correctly," Almand said. "There's no magic answer." The Fish and Wildlife Service was investigating the incident because disturbing eagles is a violation of federal law. Wildlife officials from Devils Lake, N.D. had interviewed the pilot and the commander of the Grand Forks, N.D. Air Force Base before the investigation was closed, Koerner said.

The Air Force will decide whether to investigate the matter further, Koerner said, though Ford said any further action on the matter was unlikely. White 'Assorted Pre-priced 99' Ma 4 ,4 City Low Price Just Got A A fl I "JWjMS 8 Tin uVhillips Bone's I vodka rm eases All Flavors rl Black Jaymes f1 jyPjfS Velvet frA Malt IfMCanadian'f BACoolers GfU3 1.75 Liter A4-Packrr jL fft Gallo frfflj) Johnson JT Premium tgJCanadian JXJ Dinner lJ23 1.75 uter Wines rpSjk SkQg fi 3Uters 10 $199 p-, I '4 In Stock fh Bacardi fSBS I 750 ml I -A Silver or Amber jp lJ L-i" id PHAIHIE at 3 I'llE PRK El) 4 -fSto niMhio NOOTilKR jf STORE DOES! 1 1 ABERDEEN (AP) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has closed its investigation of a complaint that a military helicopter disturbed a pair of nesting bald eagles at the Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The pair of nesting eagles, one of the first in South Dakota since the late 1800s, left the refuge March 13 after a helicopter flew over the area at low altitude, said refuge manager John Koerner. The eagles have not returned.

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