Palin and the Wolves

This barbaric practice is America's shame in the same manner the heinous clubbing of baby seals is Canada's immoral plague.

Anyone who is involved in this obscenity is a coward.

"We have a naturally functioning ecosystem that you can manage to produce food locally." What a submoronic piece of deluded idiocy. By definition, a naturally functioning ecosystem is not managed for human's benefit. Such statements are proof that the pro-aerial hunting crowd are blatant liars, or so definitely stupid as render thing they have to say worthless, meaningless, and irrelevant.

This program is a stain on Alaska and its people. The longer it continues, the worse they look. Alaska may be our largest state but it certainly contains a lot of small-minded people. As for Palin, her political ambitions are dead on arrival.

And some people think she could be our President . . .

My work takes me to Alaska regularly, but I have also chosen to take vacations there (mainly in the interior). The Alaskan predator-control program, however, is so lacking in justification that I can no longer enjoy spending any time in Alaska except the bare minimum my work requires. The wolf program has no basis in science, and displays an ignorance of wolf behavior (very like some of the coyote-control programs of the lower 48, in fact). The program would appear to have been thrown together by people lacking in critical thinking skills. It is interesting to note that wolves are persecuted everywhere where humans are recent immigrants, but where humans and wolves have coexisted for thousands of years (Italy, for example) the wolves are left alone.

As former Alaska residents, my husband and I have been actively involved in Alaska's bear and wolf management issues for two decades. http://akwildlife.com/Photographers.html. In 2000, former Alaska Governor Tony Knowles formed the McGrath Adaptive Management Team to determine the cause and solution for an "alleged" lack of moose around McGrath. My husband, Leo, was appointed to that six-member team. The team directed Fish & Game to conduct numerous studies. Those studies established the McGrath area as having the most and best science on which to base management decisions. The finding of these studies demonstrated there was no need to consider or begin predator control. Though these results were published in a State Fish and Game Memorandum; dated Nov. 2, 2001 http://www.akwildlife.com/Page5.htm followed by a Press Release dated Nov. 6th
http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/news/99-02/11-6-01.php, and featured in the Anchorage Daily News (http://alaskawolfkill.com/McGrath_Moose_Flourish.html) they were later buried and ignored for political reasons.

After receiving these reports, the Adaptive Management team stopped meeting. The draft predator control plan they had been working on was unjustified and support for it vanished. Everyone began to look to the Board of Game to better regulate hunting pressure, the true cause for the lack of Bull Moose. However, in 2001, one, and only one thing changed. Pro-Wolf Control advocate Frank Murkowski, wildly supported by the hunting lobby, was elected Governor. He appointed five radical fellow wolf control advocates as new members to the seven-member Board of Game. The Board and ADF&G buried the McGrath information calling for regulation of hunters. They then adopted the incomplete plan the McGrath Adaptive Management Team had been developing, and rushed into implementing predator control.

In Jan. 2008, we completed a video which exposes the truth about the stranglehold the hunting lobby has on wildlife management in Alaska. Using testimony from Alaska Department of Fish & Game staff, a master hunting guide, and Board of Game members, this video exposes the fallacy behind Governor Sarah Palin's claim that predator control is based on sound science. Declarations that the program is for the benefit of subsistence hunters are shattered with documentation showing that sport and trophy hunters take up to 73% of prey in areas where aerial wolf hunting has taken place. See it here: http://current.com/items/88811075/end_aerial_wolf_hunting.htm

Poor Sarah. Everything she does turns out to be a national joke. To think, there are people who actually think she has a shot at 2012! She doesn't get it and even worse she just doesn't care.

Palin like moose meat chili . That's all you need to know.

Wolves one, Palins nothing. Sad score.

I have dispised the concept of aerial hunts since I was a child back in the 60s and saw the television special, 'Say Goodbye' a show that pointed out the horrors of wildlife killing gone amuck. How people can hunt down exhausted wolves and call themselves sportsmen or hunters is beyond me. What such people are is bloodthirsty dispoilers of our Nation's wilderness & wildlife.

All bsing aside, Palin, is just a name for article, and attention. This would probably be going on no matter who the governor of Alaska is. IT'S still WRONG