"At the age of seventy-two and after having served as a counselor to three Presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, George Q. Cannon was still writing about the humane treatment of animals. One of his last editorials began with an expressed doubt as to the success or usefulness of bounties on predators. He specifically attacked the hunting of hawks . . . The crow and the coyote were likewise defended by editor Cannon. Basically his argument in the editorial was that 'efforts to destroy the equilibrium [of nature] are generally disastrous.'"