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Alaska Wolves Background
Alaska is home to the largest remaining population of gray wolves in the United States. Some 6,000 to 7,000 wolves roam the state in habitats as diverse as barren arctic tundra and lush temperate rain-forests.
Alaska’s wolves, as elsewhere, play an essential role in maintaining healthy prey populations and biodiversity in ecosystems in which they inhabit. They are also vital to the state’s tourism economy: People from all over the world come to Alaska for the opportunity to see a wild wolf.
But ironically, at the same time that heroic efforts proceed to restore wolves to portions of their former habitat in the lower 48 states, wolves in Alaska continue to be persecuted.
Status
Because wolf populations in Alaska have never declined to the extent they have in other states, they were never added to the endangered species list. Alaska classifies wolves as both big game animals and furbearers, which means they can be hunted and trapped. Each year, more than 1,000 wolves are trapped or hunted. According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, "Most of these harvest totals do not include unreported harvests which may equal or exceed the reported harvest...."
Wolf Control and Aerial Gunning
Ignoring the findings of numerous scientific studies that have determined that predators rarely are the sole cause of significant or long-term declines in prey populations, wolf control supporters continue to push for intensive control. The most controversial control method is aerial gunning. This practice is opposed because it is considered unsportsmanlike, unethical and nearly impossible to regulate. It also leads to many other violations of hunting regulations such as chasing, herding and harassing wolves.
A 1971 documentary entitled Wolves and the Wolfmen depicted an aerial hunt in Alaska and outraged the public and led to passage of the Airborne Hunting Act (AHA) in 1971.
From 1972 to 1996, hunters were still allowed to “land and shoot” wolves using aircraft. Though they were required to land their plane first, the land and shoot was not effective unless the animals were harassed and chased to exhaustion first, in contravention of the
After 24 years of numerous violations of the AHA, the people of Alaska finally banned land and shoot hunting by statewide initiative in 1996. But Alaska law allows laws enacted by ballot measures to be overturned after a two year period and this is what the Alaska legislature did.
Currently, in over 60,000 square miles of Alaska, private citizens with state permits can either land and shoot wolves or shoot them from the air. As before, these hunters use their own planes, pay all expenses of the hunt and are entitled to keep or sell the wolf pelts. The only thing that has changed is that hunters must obtain a permit from the state and hunt wolves only within wolf control areas designated by the Board of Game.
An equal number of people are now obtaining permits to hunt wolves as hunted wolves in the years before the AHA was passed. Regardless of the federal law, wolves are still being harassed and hazed with aircraft and wounded animals are often impossible to retrieve, resulting in inhumane lingering deaths. The goal of the program is not the protection of wildlife from problem wolves, but the artificial boosting of numbers of prey species to unsustainable levels for sport hunters. At high levels, prey populations can overgraze and destroy their habitat.
Thus, the very type of wolf hunting that the AHA was designed to prohibit is still going on, but clothed with different terminology. The state of Alaska calls it “control,” but it is a hunt primarily by local residents for the benefit of urban and non-resident sport hunters.
If this was a program designed to protect wildlife, as contemplated by the exception in the AHA, it would be much more limited geographically, conducted more efficiently by professional personnel employed by the Department of Fish and Game, and limited to those situations where there is a serious biological problem.
Take Action
Alaska's majestic gray wolves are in grave danger. Marksmen use low-flying planes to chase the wolves, run them to exhaustion and shoot them to death at point-blank range. Follow this [link] and click on the Take action today! link
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Reference pics...
Alaskan Wolf Pup: [link]
Alaskan Wolf: [link]
[link]
[link]
Alaskan Wolf Pup and Parents: [link]
thank you much love
Mowgli - For Charity
Mission Wolf, a wolf and wolf hybrid sanctuary in Colorado came to our attention thanks to the above deviation by
who is selling prints of it with 100% of the profits generated through the sale going to Mission Wolf 
to know more and help =sidneyeileen fallow this [link]
as reported by the lovely
Alaska Wolves Background
Alaska is home to the largest remaining population of gray wolves in the United States. Some 6,000 to 7,000 wolves roam the state in habitats as diverse as barren arctic tundra and lush temperate rain-forests.
Alaska’s wolves, as elsewhere, play an essential role in maintaining healthy prey populations and biodiversity in ecosystems in which they inhabit. They are also vital to the state’s tourism economy: People from all over the world come to Alaska for the opportunity to see a wild wolf.
But ironically, at the same time that heroic efforts proceed to restore wolves to portions of their former habitat in the lower 48 states, wolves in Alaska continue to be persecuted.
Status
Because wolf populations in Alaska have never declined to the extent they have in other states, they were never added to the endangered species list. Alaska classifies wolves as both big game animals and furbearers, which means they can be hunted and trapped. Each year, more than 1,000 wolves are trapped or hunted. According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, "Most of these harvest totals do not include unreported harvests which may equal or exceed the reported harvest...."
Wolf Control and Aerial Gunning
Ignoring the findings of numerous scientific studies that have determined that predators rarely are the sole cause of significant or long-term declines in prey populations, wolf control supporters continue to push for intensive control. The most controversial control method is aerial gunning. This practice is opposed because it is considered unsportsmanlike, unethical and nearly impossible to regulate. It also leads to many other violations of hunting regulations such as chasing, herding and harassing wolves.
A 1971 documentary entitled Wolves and the Wolfmen depicted an aerial hunt in Alaska and outraged the public and led to passage of the Airborne Hunting Act (AHA) in 1971.
From 1972 to 1996, hunters were still allowed to “land and shoot” wolves using aircraft. Though they were required to land their plane first, the land and shoot was not effective unless the animals were harassed and chased to exhaustion first, in contravention of the
After 24 years of numerous violations of the AHA, the people of Alaska finally banned land and shoot hunting by statewide initiative in 1996. But Alaska law allows laws enacted by ballot measures to be overturned after a two year period and this is what the Alaska legislature did.
Currently, in over 60,000 square miles of Alaska, private citizens with state permits can either land and shoot wolves or shoot them from the air. As before, these hunters use their own planes, pay all expenses of the hunt and are entitled to keep or sell the wolf pelts. The only thing that has changed is that hunters must obtain a permit from the state and hunt wolves only within wolf control areas designated by the Board of Game.
An equal number of people are now obtaining permits to hunt wolves as hunted wolves in the years before the AHA was passed. Regardless of the federal law, wolves are still being harassed and hazed with aircraft and wounded animals are often impossible to retrieve, resulting in inhumane lingering deaths. The goal of the program is not the protection of wildlife from problem wolves, but the artificial boosting of numbers of prey species to unsustainable levels for sport hunters. At high levels, prey populations can overgraze and destroy their habitat.
Thus, the very type of wolf hunting that the AHA was designed to prohibit is still going on, but clothed with different terminology. The state of Alaska calls it “control,” but it is a hunt primarily by local residents for the benefit of urban and non-resident sport hunters.
If this was a program designed to protect wildlife, as contemplated by the exception in the AHA, it would be much more limited geographically, conducted more efficiently by professional personnel employed by the Department of Fish and Game, and limited to those situations where there is a serious biological problem.
Take Action
Alaska's majestic gray wolves are in grave danger. Marksmen use low-flying planes to chase the wolves, run them to exhaustion and shoot them to death at point-blank range. Follow this [link] and click on the Take action today! link
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Reference pics...
Alaskan Wolf Pup: [link]
Alaskan Wolf: [link]
[link]
[link]
Alaskan Wolf Pup and Parents: [link]
thank you much love
Mowgli - For Charity
Mission Wolf, a wolf and wolf hybrid sanctuary in Colorado came to our attention thanks to the above deviation by
who is selling prints of it with 100% of the profits generated through the sale going to Mission Wolf to know more and help =sidneyeileen fallow this [link]
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