It’s Alaska, not Vietnam
Last month I asked you to join me in signing a petition to stop the removal of the Gray Wolf from the endangered species list and opening it up be hunted right back to its pre-endangered-species-list numbers. Well, in Alaska they have started a program to kill off wolves in large numbers with Vietnam-style aerial gunning. According to the Defenders of Wildlife:
Nearly 700 wolves have been killed by aerial gunning teams in Alaska since state officials resumed the aerial gunning program — shot from above or chased to exhaustion and killed at point-blank range. Now the killing threatens to spread to the Lower 48, as anti-wolf legislators push for aerial gunning to help kill hundreds of wolves in Idaho and Wyoming.
What's worse is that there have been two ballot measures in “The Last Frontier– to prevent aerial hunting of threatened wolves that have been ignored by the Board of Game, and the killing has continued.
Fortunately, these canines have a champion in the United States Congress; Representative George Miller of California is introducing legislation to close the gaping loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act that allows this cruelty to happen. He needs your help and mine. So once again, please join me in signing a letter to be sent to your representative urging them to stop this disgusting practice. It'll only take 30 seconds. They want 10,000 by Labor Day and are only a few hundred short. Let's give them that progressive push over the edge.
Why should you? The reasons are too many to list in a single post, but you can read all of the ways in which these animals are beneficial and all of the ridiculous myths about the dangers of wolves by clicking here. Plus, it wasn't okay when Michael Vick did it to domesticated dogs; it's not any better to do it to wild ones.
Picture clicked by this wolf-lover.
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