 Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's cruel aerial slaughter has suddenly escalated.
This week, Palin's henchmen have killed 66 wolves, using helicopters, spotter planes and aerial gunners. To make matters even worse, Palin's Board of Game has approved the use of poison gas and deadly snares to kill defenseless wolf pups and their families in and around their dens.
This week, at least 66 wolves have been killed by aerial gunners with high-powered rifles in helicopters near Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. And, under new policies approved by Governor Sarah Palin's Board of Game, wolf pups could be gassed to death in their dens in the weeks ahead.
Under new guidelines, hunters can use snares to trap black bears in a specific area and can access the area via private helicopters. As for wolves, state employees are now authorized to use poison gas to kill orphaned wolf pups in dens (orphaned, presumably, after aerial hunting).
The Board of Game and Department of Fish and Game aim - or at least hope - to kill up to 60 percent of the 2,500 to 3,000 black bears that, in their opinion, prey upon an unacceptably high number of moose calves in Unit 16B, a huge area that extends from the foothills of the Alaska Range to Cook Inlet and from the Yentna River southwest to Redoubt Creek.
I'm not going to pretend I know the ins and outs of this, because I don't. I don't live in an area overwhelmed with wolves. I can't imagine though that they have become such a problem that poison gas needs to be thrown into their dens.
As for the bears, if you kill 60% of them does that mean in years to come you'll then be using those traps to kill the moose who would then perhaps be overly populated. I mean to what extent to do you step on the toes of mother nature?Labels: black bears, wolves |
