Excerpt from Animal Damage Control Act of 1980: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Department Investigations, Oversight, and Research of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, Second Session Predators caused $60 million worth of dam e in 16 Western States in 1977 alone. For that reason among others, r. Chairman, I have joined you and other concerned members of this committee in sponsor ing this legislation to help f armors and ranchers protect their crops and livestock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.