Palin and the Wolves

Wade Willis, a wildlife biologist who works for the Defenders, claims that the state really wants "unlimited commercial consumption" of game. "They want to artificially turn Alaska into a game farm, into one big hunting ground," he says. "It's a gamble based on a far-right political agenda, not on science."


This is true, this is what they want to do !

11,000 wolves left in Alaska ?? My god, I imagined it was in the hundreds of thousand. We cannot let these rednecks persecute and bring this wonderful predator to extinction. They must be stopped !

If people who shoot wolfs out of airplanes want to call themselves hunters, knock yourself out. I guess people who use explosives to fish are also called fisherman. A true hunter takes nature on without any advantages other then their skill and rifle. If you are beaten by nature, then maybe you need to improve your hunting skills not rent an airplane and shoot your target from it.

Again, it is all about greed.. These rednecks will destroy anything in their path so they can have all the moose and elks for themselves. I am just so disgusted !! they are doing what they did over 100 years ago, bring the wolf to extinction. How can we let them ? If they cannot coexist with wildlife, they should move. I feel for our wildlife. again they are the victims of persecution.

this is going to make for some interesting comments....

they could have easily left Palins name out of it, but her name is the attention grabber.

my take on it?

dont move into an area populated by wolves and other dangerous wildlife unless your prepared to deal with it. duh.

and dont shoot wolves just because the species at large is considered a "pest". why did you put your goat farm with small fences/openings next to an area known for wolves? cuz your an idiot, and now you want to retaliate against an animal that is just doing what it has to do, that is eat and feed its young. they are living beings with families that are just trying to surivive against humanity edging in on THEY'RE territory.


and, personally, hunting from a plane/helicopter with a high powered rifle is for sissies. if your going to hunt, get on they're level, and HUNT. thats like those guys that sit up in a tree for hours covered in deer piss to attract deer, thats not hunting, thats cheating and entrapment. its lame, and way to easy.

I'd rather explain why a bear is dead than explain why a sister is dead

Doesn't ex-Vice President Cheney like to hunt and live in a multimillion dollar ranch home in Wyoming where no one lives.

Against Ignorance made the most Ignorant comment in here.. It never ceases to amaze me how some armchair experts always try to tell qualified people how to do their jobs. Most of the comments on this article seem to have come from peta. who thinks that it is alright to kill people to save the rats in the alley. One thing about the Wolves that these peta types don't know is that the wolf will eat humans too. they don't kill their food first. It dies while being eaten. I personally saw it happen lots of times. I live in Wisconsin. A.I. come to wisconsin and take a walk in the forest. (Bring a gun) try to pet a wild wolf and you will need a new arm.These are not the disney characters that you are used to seeing. let the professionals do their jobs. personally I would rather use a rifle than a shotgun. at least from the air.

Wolves are a menace and should be wiped off the face of the earth. They sould be doing anything and everything to reduce their populations. The people that settled in Alaska had it right they need to be eliminated. They just about had it done were in not for the damn liberal do-gooders in this country re-introducing them. Most people don't even understand what a voracioius predator the wolf is, they are uneducated. The only place you should be able to see a wolf is in a zoo. We shoot them every chance we get regarldess...

This must get the blood pumping for the Southern hicks that must settle for the hunting venu in their areas. These poor "Hunters" must settle for video taping of the feeding areas of their prey for a couple of weeks before the "HUNT". Baiting the areas daily for a month or so before the "HUNT". Then forced to hide in a camofaged tree blind and ambushing their prey with a spray of high powered ammo.

It just doesn't compare with killing a wolf in a snow covered field from an aircraft. That real hunting.

Why not just shoot a goat at a kiddie petting zoo. save a lot of money and get a great rush at the same time.?

Let' s just do the math. There are 6,000 wolves in the lower 48 states and there are 7,000-11,000 in Alaska. So which is 7,000 or 11,000. So let's just say there are 9,000 wolves. The scientist really believe that these wolves have a ditrimental effect to the 300,000's moose and caribou. That's 3:100 wolves to moose and caribou.

The hunters take 1,100 and the state takes 300, that equals 1,400. I'm know scientist, but I don,t see how it is possible for theses wolves to keep up there numbers at all. Especially if there gassing the pups. Who I'm sure are added in to the total population. So they take out 2-4 wolves at time.

America according to my math, we have about ten years left of wolves in Alaska. What's next Bald Eagles??