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Concern over certain animal damage control methods used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), primarily the predacide Compound 1080, prompted a Presidential Order in 1972 banning the use of toxicants on public lands. This continuing ban of 1080 use has been reinforced by the recent policy address issued by the Secretary of the Interior. Following the initial ban, greater emphasis was placed on aerial hunting of coyotes for prevention and correction of damage to sheep and goats. Aerial hunting is expensive, however, and has only limited application in timbered, mountainous areas of many national forests. In the period since toxicants were banned, number of grazing livestock reported as lost to predation on western national forests has increased. Numbers of toxic bait stations (1080) used throughout the West, from 1960 until the 1972 ban, showed a strong inverse relationship with numbers of livestock reported lost to predation on national forests during these same years. This material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from OJS platform August 2020