The Historic Grizzly

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Astonishingly, the poison campaign continued. PARC riders in 1924 spread more than 100,000 poison baits over cooperating ranches in New Mexico alone. The next year, 160,000 baits were spread over 75,000 square miles. Not only was PARC distributing poison and setting out bait stations on carcasses, but "approximately" 155,000 poison baits were given free of charge to cooperators in the predator war. In Colorado PARC men poisoned, shot, and trapped 5,148 bears. A total of 30 million acres were treated with strychnine throughout the West. 
In 1928 the U.S. Forest Service estimated only about twenty-eight grizzlies in national forests in New Mexico, ten in Arizona, and two in Colorado. That year only one bear was killed by PARC. That year marked the beginning of the mop-up program to eliminate the last of the grizzlies. It was not unusual for a PARC hunter to waste up to two weeks to kill a lone grizzly hiding in some backcountry arroyo or mountain. Reply