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- From: AS.MSW@forsythe.stanford.edu (Marc Whitney)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: Alaska to shoot hundreds of wolves from airplanes
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 13:45:00 -0800
- Organization: Stanford University
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- In article <1992Nov20.183713.25800@news.arc.nasa.gov>,
- watson@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson - FSC) writes:
- >
- >Trying to tip the balance of nature in favor of the moose and caribous,
- >wildlife officials have decided to start shooting wolves from airplanes
- >over a huge portion of the Alaska wilderness.
- >
- >By reducing the number of wolves that prey on big-game animals,
- >Alaska wildlife officials hope to produce a bounty for hunters
- >and tourists.
- >
- >'A wildlife spectacle'
- >
- >"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."
-
- THIS PROPOSAL IS A MONUMENT TO HUMAN STUPIDITY!
-
- (Yes, I know all caps is equivalent to shouting. If Internet let
- you specify font size, I would be using aboy 60 point.)
-
- -Marc Whitney
- as.msw@forsythe.stanford.edu
-