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- From: wolf@netcom.com (Wolf Logan)
- Subject: Alaska Wolf Hunts
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.054646.28288@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:46:46 GMT
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- First, the straight poop:
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- The Alaska Board of Game has decided to begin aerial shooting of wolves
- in a large portion of the Alaska wilderness. The decision was prompted,
- apparently, by a desire to inflate the moose and caribou populations.
-
- Next, the editorial:
-
- The decision was ultimately prompted by a desire to increase tourism
- and game hunting in Alaska. David Kelleyhouse, of the Alaska Division
- of Wildlife Conservation, says "We feel we are going to create a wildlife
- spectacle on a par with the major migrations in East Africa. Mom and
- pop from Syracuse can come up here and see something that they can't
- see anywhere else on earth." Kelleyhouse also said that although
- there are no real shortages of big-game animals in Alaska, the decision
- is an attempt to make it easier for hunters to kill moose and caribou.
-
- Randy Smith, director of the Alaska Outdoor Council, said that if the
- state did not begin killing wolves it would take too long to build up
- the moose and caribou herds.
-
- Now, the information:
-
- Senator Ted Stevens (R, Girdwood AK)
- Phone (DC) 202-224-3004
- Sits on the following committees:
- Appropriations
- Commerce, Science, and Transportation
- Governmental Affairs
- Rules and Administration
- Small Business
- Joint Committee on the Library
- Joint Committee on Printing
-
- Senator Frank Murkowski (R, Fairbanks AK)
- Phone (DC) 202-224-6665
- Sits on the following committees:
- Energy and Natural Resources (!)
- Foreign Relations
- Veterans Affairs
- Select Committee on Indian Affairs (!)
- Select Committee on Intelligence
-
- Gov. Walter Hickel
- Phone (Juneau) 907-465-3500
-
- Other numbers, including the office of the Alaska Division of Wildlife
- Conservation, should be available from Alaska information at 907-555-1212
-
- Feel free to contact your own representatives, no matter where you are.
- Although this is not a Federal issue, the Federal government does have
- ways of exerting pressure on State governments.
-
- We have to move on this, folkz. They're going to start in with the
- same kind of indiscriminate killing that wiped wolves out in Yellowstone.
- Alaska and Minnesota are the only two states with viable wolf populations
- remaining. Alaska has but 7000 wolves statewide. In some areas, the
- arial killing would destroy 80 percent of the wolf population. We can't
- allow this to happen.
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