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Aldo Leopold, “Arizona and New Mexico”, in (1949), A Sand County Almanac, pp 129–130. “Cunning”, “diabolical” and “depraved” are Worster’s words to describe the depiction of wolves in the anti-wolf propaganda of the early twentieth century. “Vermin” was in general use, and the colloquial noun “‘varmint’ has been the very worst epithet in America’s moral lexicon”. Worster (1977), pp 265, 258–261 and 260.