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- From: tilley@fsh.UUCP (Tom Tilley)
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- Subject: Re: Alaska to shoot hundreds of wolves from airplanes
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 01:18:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.193758.7601@meteor.wisc.edu> tobis@meteor.wisc.edu (Michael Tobis) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.183713.25800@news.arc.nasa.gov> watson@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson - FSC) writes:
- >
- >>New York Times
- >>
- >>"This decision is bad biology all around,
- >>almost insulting from a scientific standpoint,"
- >>said Dr. Gordon Haber, a wildlife scientist
- >>who has been studying wolves in Alaska for 27 years.
- >
- >Mr. Watson only quotes one side of the story. Please note that it is the side
- >that I agree with, but doesn't really represent the Times' angle on it, ...
-
- I read the story in the San Jose Mercury News (I posted a summary from memory
- to r.b before John's post got here). When I read John's post, the article
- sounded _exactly_ like what I saw in the paper with no additions or
- subtractions. I suspect a journalist somewhere did the editing.
-
- >One quotation that I found particularly interesting was the quote from the
- >director of a hunter's advocacy group, Randy Smith:
- >
- >`"These animals are being managed for the benefit of man, and that's the way
- >it should be," Mr. Smith said.'
-
- The article that appeared in the SJMN mentioned hunting as an aside (it did
- not have this quote). I suspected the "hunting" part had more to do with
- this proposal than the silly "wildlife tours for mom and pop" that the
- article mentioned. Of course, this doesn't change the stupidity of the
- proposal at all (I agree about man's interest in AK being to preserve real
- wilderness).
-
- Tom.
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