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- From: Andrew Lang <lang@igc.apc.org>
- Subject: Alaska: Oppose Aerial Wolf Control
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.004624.17367@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- /* Written 1:58 am Nov 20, 1992 by econet@igc.apc.org in igc:en.alerts */
- /* ---------- "Alaska: Oppose Aerial Wolf Control" ---------- */
- In an attempt to increase hunting opportunities for urban hunters the
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) approved a plan to
- exterminate up to 80% of the wolves over a 20,000 square mile area in
- Interior Alaska. Currently about 400 wolves live in this area, but the
- plan would eliminate 300 to 350 by shooting them from helicopters. Chris
- Smith, Fairbanks regional supervisor for the State Division of Wildlife
- Conservation said, "To the greatest extent possible, we will be trying
- to remove entire packs at the same time. We want this to be a
- professional, surgical program." In 1993 about 1000 wolves will be
- killed statewide to maintain the population between 6000 and 7000. The
- dead wolves hides will be sold and other parts will be used for
- research. By the year 2000, ADF&G wants to increase the size of two
- caribou herds from 27,000 to 70,000. "We feel we are going to create a
- wildlife spectacle on a par with the major migrations in East Africa,"
- said David Kelleyhouse, director of the Division of Wildlife
- Conservation. "Mom and Pop from Syracuse can come up here and see
- something that they can't see anywhere else on Earth." The caribou
- herds have been stable or increasing since wolf control was ended in
- 1983, according to Vic Van Ballenberghe, a former Board of Game Member.
- "I have to question wolf control on that basis alone," he said.
-
- You may want to voice your concern? Contact Governor Wally Hickel and
- the Alaska Division of Tourism and tell them you oppose wolf
- control and will not consider traveling to a state that murders wolves.
-
- Alaska Division of Tourism Governor Walter J. Hickel
- Tourism Marketing Council Third Floor, State Capitol
- PO Box E PO Box 110001
- Juneau, AK 99811 Juneau, AK 99811
- Tel: (907) 563-2289 Tel: (907) 465-3500
-
- Please visit recent topics in the conferences <en.wildlife> and
- <en.alaska> for further details and suggestions for action.
-
- (ref.: gpak, mlewis, awhitworth)
-