Gov Palin accused of approving poison gas for Alaska wolf hunts

[G_j]

http://www.examiner.com/x-1514-DC-Dogs-Examiner~y2009m3d21-Gov-Palin-accused-of-approving-poison-gas-for-Alaska-wolf-hunts

Gov Palin accused of approving poison gas for Alaska wolf hunts
March 21, 1:09 AM

The Defenders of Wildlife reported this week that Governor Sarah Palin has approved the use of poisonous gas to help cull the wolf population in Alaska.

"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, " stated the Defenders of Wildlife.

The group also noted that 66 wolves were killed, using helicopters, spotter planes, and aerial gunners this past week.
According to Anchorage News Daily:

The state is offering incentives for people who kill wolves in an effort to boost Alaska's predator control program, which so far has failed to meet expected numbers. The program operating for five years, in five areas of the state, is designed to increase moose and caribou numbers by reducing the number of predators.
In February, DC Dogs reported that celebrity, Ashley Judd, is a supporter of the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund and appeared with its president, Rodger Schlickeisen, on Larry King Live to talk about Eye On Palin -- a campaign about Governor Sarah Palin’s conservation record

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/03/aerial-wolf-hun.html

Alaska begins aerial wolf hunt to boost caribou population
9:37 PM, March 20, 2009

Alaska's aerial hunt for gray wolves, decried by many animal activists (and, famously, by actress Ashley Judd in a Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund video), is now in full swing.

At least 30 wolves have been killed by hunters wielding high-caliber guns in the program that began in earnest last weekend. Our colleague Kim Murphy at the Greenspace blog has the details:

The predator control effort has run into opposition from the National Park Service, which manages the nearby Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, where biologists have been radio-collaring wolves in a long-running study of how predators and prey interact in the 2.5-million-acre wilderness near the Canadian border.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game, aiming to boost the survival of caribou calves, wants to kill up to 328 wolves, leaving behind at least 88 to 103. Killing them, state officials say, will allow the Fortymile caribou herd, ravaged by three years of bad weather and heavy snow, to expand from its current level of 40,000 animals to as many as 100,000.

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[Vinca]

1. How can that possibly be legal? What a sadistic, horrible person she is.

[ixion]

2. WTF is it with this bitch and wolves?

I mean, was she terrorized as a kid or something?

I continue to grow more disgusted with her by the day. :puke:

[truebrit71]

8. I despise that wolf-killing bitch...

I agree, the viciousness with she she goes after them is breath-taking...she needs to be reomved from office.

[malaise]

19. You're on to something here

Everything about that woman reminds me of an abused child.

[Botany]

3. They don't believe in science in Alaska?

Ecology 101 A healthy wolf population helps support a healthy Caribou population. They prey on the old, the sick, and the young
the healthy breeding adult population of caribou are @ little risk of predation. Now is there enough food to support a much larger herd?
Will overgrazing cause problems? What about disease risks? All this so people who don't need to can shoot more caribou.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game, aiming to boost the survival of caribou calves, wants to kill up to 328 wolves, leaving behind at
least 88 to 103. Killing them, state officials say, will allow the Fortymile caribou herd, ravaged by three years of bad weather and heavy snow,
to expand from its current level of 40,000 animals to as many as 100,000.

[ShortnFiery]

4. Sarah Palin is an horrid excuse for a human being. n/t

[fasttense]

5. I think Palin sees wolves as competition. n/t

[rfranklin]

6. Nuclear weapons would be more effective...

Let's solve all of Alaska's problems once and for all.

[Smith_3]

13. That's "nucular weapons".

[NOW tense]

7. Wouldn't that break UN ban on chemical weapons? n/t

[City Lights]

9. She really is a despicable human being.

I loathe her. :puke:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. She is a monster. Naturally this isn't making MSM because they're propping her to

be a valid candidate in 2012.

[G_j]

16. common knowledge that video and stories of wolves being killed upsets people..

:mad:

[G_j]

11. k

[merh]

12. K&R

:kick:

[JanusAscending]

14. I guess she never saw

the movie I saw last weekend. It's called "Never Cry Wolf" Best I've seen in a long time! Guy proves that wolves can exist by just killing and eating mice if there is no other source of meat around. He existed on the same diet through one winter in Alaska! True story...done by actors in a documentary style!! He observed, as well as lived with the wolves peacefully during this time. Great movie, and Sarah should be made to watch it, and leave the wolves alone!!

[lies and propaganda]

15. How does this not affect humans?

Its despicable in ever way, but wont a chemical travel through the air and potentially affect people too?

Of course, they will say it wont. But it could taint ice and trees, etc.. starting a whole mess of problems

[SalmonChantedEvening]

In THAT voice?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

17. She's gonna talk to them? n/t

[malaise]

18. This is disgusting

and what happens when she kills wolves, bears and a few humans?

Go away you evil woman. :puke:

[Vektor]

20. What a sick, subhuman sack of shit. She needs to do the world a favor and gas herself.

She's not redeemable.

[Cass]

21. There is something wrong with her. She has a fixation on killing animals.

She is disgusting.

[AndrewP]

23. She is a vile piece of garbage.

[Holly_Hobby]

22. My heart hurts n/t

[Rage for Order]

24. ZOMG!!11!!!1! Are they series??//?/??/?

Poison gas, and I bet she also yanks puppies out of incubators! The Defenders of Wildlife (who I'm sure are completely non-partisan with no agenda driving them) claim it is so, and it's taken as fact. Too funny.

From the http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/wolves/story/205436.html">Anchorage Daily News article linked at the Defenders of Wildlife site:

"Several factors have led to a low wolf take this winter, so we're going to step up our efforts to meet the annual objectives in this important program," Commissioner Denby Lloyd with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said in a statement Wednesday.

The incentives include offering 180 volunteer pilots and aerial gunners $150 in cash for turning in legs of freshly killed wolves, Gov. Sarah Palin's office announced Tuesday. The state will use the left forelegs of wolves as biological specimens, which can help biologists determine wolf age and will assist the program in the future, Lloyd said.

The Palin administration is anteing up cash because the number of wolf kills this winter is behind schedule. State biologists wanted 382 to 664 wolves killed by the time the snow that helps with tracking disappears this spring. The predator-control season ends April 30.

As of Tuesday morning, 98 wolves had been killed by aerial gunners, hunters and trappers. Pilots have complained that fuel prices are too high to fly and there hasn't been enough snow on the ground to track the elusive animals, said Matt Robus, Division of Wildlife Conservation director. There are also fewer wolves to kill now because of kills in past years, he said.

More than 600 wolves have been killed under the program. The state estimates there are between 7,000 and 11,000 wolves in Alaska. The Board of Game recently urged Palin to let state staff shoot wolves from helicopters. Shooting from helicopters that hover close to packs would be more deadly and humane than from the airplanes that are currently allowed, board members have said.

Palin has asked Fish and Game officials to charter helicopters only as a last resort. The governor prefers cash incentives because they are less expensive than renting helicopters, and the income helps families where the wolf killing occurs, Leighow said.


I'm no Palin fan, but the knee-jerk hysterics on this thread are beyond funny. This is a program that is being recommended by the Department of Fish and Game and state biologists, not some personal vendetta that Palin has against wolves.

[G_j]

25. really? and Palin has no say in this?

you ought to go back do some research, and read her statements on this issue, before you accuse legitimate organizations of knee-jerk hysterics.