Palin and the Wolves

The only reason, that I know of, that Ms. Palin wants to kill wolves is so that out-of-state hunter will, supposedly, have more undulates to choose from. What she apparently does not understand is that when you mess with the balance of
nature, everyone/everything suffers.
Perhaps Ms. Palin would advocate an open season on humans as they are the ones that kill the most animals, sometimes
for no reason.

Too many humans doing too much overbuilding as well as too much overuse and abuse of resources means wildlife and nature have nowhere to go, no clean water to drink, no land to roam, no food to eat. The small minded murder of animals for selfish economic reasons (or unnecessary hunter ones) is archaic and disgusting. We need bigger, more enlightened minds making decisions about equitable land sharing, there is no reason for this sickening display of murder.

Too many humans doing too much overbuilding and too much overuse of resources means wildlife and nature have nowhere to go, no clean water to drink, no land to roam, no food to eat. The small minded murder of animals for selfish economic reasons is archaic and disgusting. We need bigger minds making decisions about equitable and sharing.

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It takes a real macho/hero/sportsman to sit in an airplane , runa a wolf down until it's exhausted and then shoot it. What do these guys do when they are bored - pull the wings off of baby birds?
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This is what hunters do: kill for fun, preferably at no danger to themselves. Palin simply exemplifies those among us whose brain stems never got past the primordial stage. A true hunter would want a foe that can kill you in return if you miss. I have long suggested that hunters are cowards: there are wars to be fought that should satisfy their kill lust, but no, why do that when you can kill something that can't fight back - especailly from airplanes. The GOP home of the brave, all talk, all spineless chicken hawks.

There is not much more cruel or cowardly than shooting wolves from the air. I would like to believe we are more enlightened than that. When will we learn to protect and respect our natural word. God help us in our ignorance and greed. Sayword

There isn't much more cruel and cowardly than shooting wolves from the air. I would think we have evolved higher than this. Have we humans learned nothing about respecting nature and our earth. God help our ignorance. Sayword

Everything Sarah Palin and her "Game Commission " know about wildlife management can be engraved on the head of a pin by a blind person. The balance of nature and the big part played by the predator-prey relationship has been around much longer than humanoids in Alaska and everywhere else. The decreasing game species in alaska is due simply to overhunting generally and trophy hunting in particular. No predator species ,except man ,can outstrip a prey species. In the case of wolves, their primary food sourse is rodents. Is Sarah Palin worried about Lemmings and Field Mice?The Alaska Policy toward wolves ignores sound science on every level and caters to big monet fringe groups like the Safari Club Which is typical of folks who don't and never will understand the natural world.

What goes around, comes around. I was a bush pilot in Alaska in the late 50's and early 60's. Wolf hunting was allowed by aircraft. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offered a $50 bounty and the wolf fur generated another $50. Then a Univ. of Alaska grad student produced a seven-year study of wolves in the wild which showed amonst other things that wolves did not decimate caribou populations (the main source of protein for native Alaskans), the wolves basically, culled sick and injured caribou during migrations and the wolves did not mate during lean years. What has changed to demote these findings? I have flown over caribou migrations that numbered in the thousands...there was a natural balance you could perceive from the air. The wolves were part of the natural balance. Any effort at control of wolf populations from the air is misdirected and faulty science. It pains me to now read that techno-bureaucratic naturalists are sucked into this dumb idea that we need to cull wolf populations. What we need is to cull these lame people from decision making positions..

A person just has to continue to wonder how planet Earth, including Alaska, ever managed to survive without game management by humans. Don't wolves help keep the gene pool of the herds strong by hunting the weaker individuals? Aren't human hunters the antithesis of natural selection? If wolves had walls to hang heads of their prey on would they then hunt the alpha males of the herds as humans do? How come there are any game herds left at all in Alaska if wolves present such a threat to game herds? Weren't the wolves, bears and game herds present in Alaska long before the first Anglo showed up? It seems to me that wolves are real hunters and, comparatively speaking, human hunters are quasi-hunters with guns and aircraft. I think the quasi-hunters are jealous of the real hunters.

I do not understand the need to kill one of nature's most beautiful and intelligent animals. I was a volunteer in the 80's at the Wolf Sanctuary at Tyson Research Center in St. Louis County in Missouri and fell in love wilth these animals. Yes, I have a healthy respect for them. Is it fear that causes man and Sarah Palin to prove themselves superior? The wolf will win. The wolf is superior and should be respected

Maybe it's time to have aerial hunting of idiots like Sarah Palin and those outdoor sportsmen who look at animals only as prey. (Wolves mate for life--far superior in the commitment area than most humans.) The state of Alaska could offer licenses for $10,000 and up and for those who could afford it, fly to Alaska and chase Sarah and her ilk from helicopters through the willderness. Now that's something I'd love to watch on youtube. I can only hope that the Federal law to stop all aerial shooting will stop this barbaric nonsense once and for all.

II think the ruthless killing of wolves is unconscionable. Wolves do not overpopulate. It is grossly inhumane to kill animals this way. Palin is a demon the way she destroys wildlife and, being governor, promotes horroblle atrocities against all wildlife. What gives jerky inhumane people the right to slaughter God's magnificent animals? who inhabit the earth in all innocence just to live and take care of their families. Get rid of the gunslingers and keep the wolves. The earth has too many people now. Save the wolves and reduce human population who corrupt the earth.

Stop this senseless, barbaric killing of wolves once and for all. They have as much right to live as humans give themselves. If only the wolves could defend themselves, say with an AK47. On second thought, don't think they would be that brutal, but would love to see them have a fighting chance!!!!

I find this aerial slaughter of wolves in Alaska to be totally unconscionable. Wolves are the top predator and do not overpopulate their species as humans do. It is a cowardly act against creatures attempting to live their lives without any interference from man. What gives Alaska the right to kill them, especially when they are totally defenseless, having no where to avoid this barbarian behavior. Is it all for the hunter , so that the moose and caribou populations are soaring, and more money to line pockets. This war against wolves has been ongoing for hundreds of years and its time to come out of the darkness of superstition and folk tale type thought processes. Wolves are an integral part of the web of life, and humans must respect and hnonor that. There are too many stories of top predators being eradicted, only to be faced with monumental problems do to this stupidity. This is no doubt one of those times. Its time to come into the 21st century and spiritually view the wolf as a magnificent, intelligent being, deserving our respect. May they reign forever in our hearts, minds and wilderness home.

wow, a 12 gauge and a chopper. That is so humane. Blast em & leave em.

Nature has its way of controling wildlife, we do not need hunters in airplanes doing that.

The wholesale murder of wolves to bring rvenue into the state is disgusting. Let the Federal government intercede and protect the wolves. Nature will retain a balance, we do not need hunters to slaughter them.