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Rabies epidemic was like a war in Eastern Oregon

W.J. Lubken, OSU Archive/Edwin Russell Jackman collection <br><b>Three coyote hunters pose with their guns and their quarry in downtown Burns in front of a very early Model T Ford bearing 1913 license tags. At the time this photo was taken, the Eastern Oregon rabies outbreak was a growing problem, and bounties paid for coyote pelts made this sort of thing lucrative.</b>
W.J. Lubken, OSU Archive/Edwin Russell Jackman collection
Three coyote hunters pose with their guns and their quarry in downtown Burns in front of a very early Model T Ford bearing 1913 license tags. At the time this photo was taken, the Eastern Oregon rabies outbreak was a growing problem, and bounties paid for coyote pelts made this sort of thing lucrative.
OSU Archive/U.S. Forest Service <br><b>This is J.R. Carper, the U.S. Forest Service government trapper, posing on the front porch of a log cabin in 1908 with the skins of a number of predatory animals he’s killed. This was two years before the rabies outbreak, when Carper’s trapping expertise would be called upon to help reduce the population of potentially rabid coyotes.</b>
OSU Archive/U.S. Forest Service
This is J.R. Carper, the U.S. Forest Service government trapper, posing on the front porch of a log cabin in 1908 with the skins of a number of predatory animals he’s killed. This was two years before the rabies outbreak, when Carper’s trapping expertise would be called upon to help reduce the population of potentially rabid coyotes.

Mar 14, 2013


By Finn J.D. John
Special to the News-Register

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