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Dear Arctic,

I've got some great news!

Officials at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) say that they plan to rescind the agency's plan to delist gray wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies sometime soon and place them back under federal protections.

Thanks to your incredible efforts and support over the last few months, the Fish and Wildlife Service has finally bowed to reality by recognizing that there are serious scientific and legal problems with their plan for delisting wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies.

I am so proud of your efforts and grateful for your support in this fight. This important victory couldn't have happened without the efforts of tens of thousands of Defenders supporters, our dedicated staff and our conservation allies.

But our wolves aren't out of trouble yet.

Take action now. Urge Dale Hall, the head of the Fish and Wildlife Service, to protect wolves with a plan that ensures that responsible, science-based and balanced management will benefit wolves, ranchers, hunters, Northern Rockies residents and all Americans who care deeply about wildlife conservation.

The Fish and Wildlife Service, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana must now go back to the drawing board and come up with a new, more responsible plan to ensure that wolves are fully recovered with healthy, sustainable and diverse population levels before they are removed from the list of federally protected species.

Dear Arctic,



The killing could start any day. Alaska state officials have already begun issuing permits for this year's aerial hunting season, and hundreds of wolves could die.



So far, 29 Members of Congress have signed on to cosponsor the Protect America's Wildlife (PAW) Act, federal legislation to end aerial wolf hunting. Unfortunately, your Representative, your U.S. representative , has yet to join the fight to save wolves.



Urge your Member of Congress to cosponsor legislation to end aerial hunting of wolves in Alaska and prevent this brutal and unnecessary practice from spreading to other states. Send your message today.



Help us reach our goal of 129,000 messages by next Monday!



Together with our sister organization, Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, we've made great strides in this campaign. Over the weekend, more than 230 generous wildlife supporters contributed to support our efforts to pass the PAW Act. Thanks to these donations, we have almost all the near-term resources we need to place our powerful ads in Congress Daily.



With your help, we blocked Alaska Governor Sarah Palins grisly wolf paw bounty plan and generated more than 109,000 messages in support of the PAW Act. Now we're stepping up our campaign, and we need your help.



Help us convince your Representative to cosponsor the PAW Act. Send your message right now.



My team of policy advocates and I will be meeting with at least 15 more Congressional offices before the end of the week, urging Representatives to finally put an end to the inhumane, unnecessary and unpopular practice of aerial hunting. Can you help us make these meetings a success?



Write your Representative today and help us stop aerial hunting of wolves.



With great appreciation,



Robert Dewey

Vice President, Government Relations

Defenders of Wildlife



P.S. To stop aerial hunting of wolves, we need to bring as much pressure to bear as possible. Maximize your impact by forwarding this message to at least 4 friends!

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Wolf News around the World, September 2007 - by Chris Kirby
Alaska

the 1972 Airborne Hunting Act that has allowed Alaska to
Recent hearings were held in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming onrevisions to the rule that governs how the reintroducedwolves are managed--the 10j rule. Outside of Cody, WY the recent public testimony panned the proposal. Their proposal also requires a process by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) known as the EA (Environmental analysis). Therefore, USFWS is doing a quick environmental analysis (EA) on their new 10j rule and you are invited to comment. All public comments for both the proposed 10(j) special rule and the EA must be received by the Service by October 11, 2007. Both documents can be viewed at their website.

Comments on the draft 10(j) special regulation and the draft EA ( both identified by RIN number 1018-AV39)

Mail or hand-deliver comments to, USFWS, Western Gray Wolf Recovery Coordinator, 585 Shepard Way, Helena, MT 59601.

Electronic mail (e-mail) directly to the Service at WolfRuleChange@fws.gov [for 10(j)] and or at EA-WolfRuleChange@fws.gov [for EA]

Include "RIN number 1018-AV39" in the subject line of the message(s).

For comment ideas see WHAP article by founder Maria Ferguson.

Wolves are being killed at an increased rate across the Northern Rockies this year as their population expands and wildlife officials seek to curb their appetite for livestock, state and federal officials said September 10.

Ed Bangs has released the mid-year estimate of wolf numbers. The numbers are compared to the end of 2006; therefore, population growth will be grossly overstated, as wolves will perish between mid-2007 and the end of 2007.

2006 MT 316 ID 673 WY 311 TOTAL 1300

2007 MT 394 ID 788 WY 362 TOTAL 1545

Bang's agency also reported that the number of sheep, cows and dogs killed by wolves is down with 439 last year and 306 so far this year. However, the number of wolves killed in response is expected to top last year's figure: 134 wolves have been killed by federal agents and private citizens defending livestock so far this year, and officials expect more deaths. The figure for all of 2006 was 142 killed. Bangs said the government's reaction has been more aggressive particularly in WY. Instead of allowing up to 3 livestock deaths before removing a problem pack, some packs in the state were removed after 2 instances.

The US Fish & Wildlife Service is proposing to loosen legal language allowing state agencies to kill wolves that are having an "unacceptable impact" on elk, deer and other ungulate herds. Taking out wolves that are eating into those herds won't be a problem for the overall Rocky Mountain wolf population, Wolf Recovery Coordinator for the Fish and Wildlife Service, Ed Bangs, said. Right now, most wild ungulate herds outside Yellowstone National Park in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming are at "record high" levels and above state management goals, according to the agency's environmental assessment of the proposal.

Washington

A calf in northeastern Washington near the Stevens County border community of Laurier had recently been predated. The livestock death is believed to be the first in Washington caused by a wolf since the predators were effectively erased from the state through bounty-hunting, poisoning and trapping in the 1930's. Photos and measurements were also taken of large canine footprints found in the area. The wolf is protected as an endangered species under both state and federal law in Washington. Agents hope to attach a tracking collar on the wolf in order to monitor its movements. There are no plans to kill it said Tom Buckley, spokesman for the F&W Service. Rancher Len McIrvin of the Diamond M Ranch is eligible for reimbursement for the lost calf through a trust fund established by the conservation group, Defenders of Wildlife. A field necropsy was conducted the US Fish & Wildlife Service and the Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife agreed the calf is likely the first recognized wolf kill in Washington state since the 1930's. Although most everyone involved with the investigation agrees a wolf did it, confirmed is not a word anyone is willing to utter.

Wyoming

The Wyoming Game & Fish Department intends to ask the Legislature for $4.55 million to manage wolves during the 2008-09 biennium. The proposed budget is found in the draft Wyoming Gray Wolf Management Plan presented to the state Game and Fish Commission September 7, 2007 in Casper. The commission is expected to approve taking the plan before the public. Then, the department intends to take the proposed budget to Gov. Dave Freudenthal and then to the Legislature for a general fund allocation. Wolf control would not be paid from hunting and fishing license revenues. The proposal amounts to $2.27 million per year for Wyoming wolf management. By contrast, the US Fish & Wildlife Service has spent $2 million annually on wolves in the entire Northern Rockies. "This budget is a boondoggle, and a disservice to the people of Wyoming," said Rob Edward of the carnivore conservation group Sinapu. "You'd spend much less if you simply paid three times the market value for every cow or sheep killed and called it good."

4 public meetings were held in Lander, Casper, Cody and Pinedale. Folks living nearest the majority of wolves in the state like Jackson had a far way to travel if they wanted to comment on Wyoming Revised Wolf Management Plan. The Department will not be accepting verbal comments or e-mail comments. Those interested in commenting on the draft revised plan must do so either in writing or electronic commenting system at the department's website until October 10. Written comments can be submitted at the public meetings or mailed to: Wolf Comments, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, 5400 Bishop Blvd., Cheyenne, WY 82006. Hardly anyone showed up at the hearings in Wyoming.

So far this year, Federal wildlife managers have killed 44 wolves in Wyoming for preying on livestock according to Mike Jimenez, a wolf biologist with the US Fish & Wildlife Service. That's "about normal" for Wyoming's wolf population and about the same as last year, Jimenez said. Although livestock deaths are dramatically lower so far, Jimenez said the same number of wolves has been removed because federal agents have "taken out more wolves quicker in shorter time frame to not allow packs to keep killing." The Cody and Meeteetse area has been the busiest for wolf control. Wolf managers removed the majority of the Carter Mountain pack, leaving only an adult female and pup in the pack that once numbered 15. The Washakie pack has seen some wolf control, as well as the Gooseberry pack that routinely has wolves removed every year. There are about 175 wolves in Wyoming outside YNP, and 130 inside the park. Jimenez said wolf numbers will remain stable outside the park, but inside the park saw a bump this year because last year had a distemper outbreak. Wyoming has indicated it wants to manage for the minimum number of wolves, or about 100.

US Fish & Wildlife intend to adopt the Wyoming Wolf management plan if Game & Fish approve it. "The state could take over management by mid-January," said Bill Rud, Game & Fish Division Chief. "It could be that quickly." Rud along with Game & Fish biologist Steve Tessman were in Cody last Thursday Sept 20 for the 4th and final public presentation of WY's wolf management plan. More than 60 attended the meeting including Reps. Colin Simpson and Pat Childers. The new plan includes a dual classification for Wyoming's wolf population depending where there are in the state. "Trophy Game" area where the state will issue hunting and trapping licenses and limit the number of wolves killed and "Predator" area where wolves will be killed any way any how with the stipulation that all kills be reported. If the new plan is approved, the lawsuit between the state and the federal government will be dropped, Rud said. Wyoming pastures about 1.4 million cows at peak. The sixty cattle loss attributed to Wolf kills amounts to 4.5/100th's of one percent of Wyoming's cattle herd.

Yellowstone

Not only are all of the packs on the Yellowstone Park northern range large, they are all almost equal in size. The Park pup count for the year is quite accurate and pup survival was high. It is harder to keep track of the adults so basically the numbers are as follows give or take a few: Druid Peak- 20 wolves, Agate Creek- 20 wolves, Oxbow Creek- 20 wolves, Leopold- 20 wolves, Slough Creek- 20 wolves. The Slough adults are all females except for one male born to the pack some time ago and a brand new alpha male who came from the Agates. To the south a bit, the Hayden Valley Pack with 5 adults and 4 pups. Nine wolves is a substantial pack, but they have an overlapping territory with the larger Gibbon pack of 10-12 adults and 2-4 pups. They Haydens are also in contention with the brawny bison-killing Mollies Pack (8-9 adults and 5 pups). Dr. Doug Smith says that studies have shown that the ability for a wolf pack to kill bison is different than killing elk (where speed is an advantage, something more typical of female wolves). Successful bison-killing packs are like Mollies. They have a number of large, strong males. There was no run down on the rest of the Park's packs, except for the Bechler pack. There was no information on them this year until now. Inhabiting the SW corner of Yellowstone, the pack has 10-12 adults and 4-5 pups. The Park population is up for the second year in a row after the big crash, although the mid-year estimate of about 175 is probably an overestimate because the adult wolf count for mid-year was mostly based on that of late last winter. Factoring in the Yellowstone Park wolf increase, we see that it accounts for much of the Wyoming increase mid-year as reported by Ed Bangs the other day.

Canada

A woman already charged with several counts of animal cruelty now faces a dozen more in what animal-protection workers called a brutal case of neglect. Inspectors with the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals swooped down last November on a Kerwood property, west of London, seizing 18 animals. But they returned in March and took another 28 animals -- 12 of which were "skin and bones" wolves -- and launched the second probe that ended in the 12 new charges. OSPCA official Rebecca Tanti, "Without regulations for the standard of care for the animals in these types of facilities, our hands are tied until the situation deteriorates to the point that the animals' lives are in jeopardy."

Switzerland

Photographic traps installed capture a wolf entering the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Genetic testing showed the wolf is of Italian origin. Wolves are already present in the nearby cantons of Valais and Bern. Measures have been put in place to protect livestock herds. A national plan authorizes the culling of a wolf after a minimum of 25 livestock animals have been killed in an area in a month. Experts say that wolves are normally not a danger to humans. They will even flee from children. The only exception is if it is wounded it may become aggressive.

Russia

In Chechnya (the southern Russian republic) this year several reports of wolves appearing near populated areas. After an attack, the owners put a guard on their livestock but after three nights lifted their precautions believing the wolves sensed an ambush and would not return. The very next night a pack of wolves reportedly carried out an attack on the farm. Experienced hunters say the reason is wolf cubs are now being given lessons in how to hunt since it is the season to teach them. Until recently, it was believed large numbers of wild animals and birds left Chechnya crossing into neighboring republics due to ongoing military operations particularly bombing and shelling of mountainous areas. Now ecologists believe that much of Chechnya's lost wildlife population may be gradually re-establishing itself.

Tibet

A rare Tibetan wolf died abruptly in a Himachal Pradesh zoo, wildlife officials said September 15. Found in the Tibetan plateau, Shimla died at Kufri Nature Park located 9,000 feet above sea level. Autopsy has been carried out, however, the details have not been made public by the authorities. The Tibetan Wolf, Canis Lupus Chanku, is a sub-species of the Gray Wolf.

United Kingdom

The UK Wolf Conservation Trust, based in Beenham, is hosting its annual seminar at Ufton Court and has invited 3 wildlife experts to discuss the possibility of introducing wolves to Britain.

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I want people to know how the wolf is being
targeted by airial gunning there calling it De-listing
I call it slaughter.What would you call it.

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Dear Arctic,

Congratulations! Your Representative, Brian Baird , has joined the fight against aerial hunting of wolves as a cosponsor of the Protect America's Wildlife (PAW) Act.

Thank your Representative for taking a stand against this brutal and unnecessary practice. Send your message now

As Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund's lead advocate in Washington, I spend a lot of time on Capitol Hill. One thing that's become crystal clear as I've met with Congressional offices over the last several weeks is that caring people like you are making a powerful difference in our fight to end aerial hunting of wolves.

So far, supporters of Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund and our sister organization Defenders of Wildlife have generated almost 118,000 messages in support of federal legislation to close the loophole that has allowed Alaskan officials to license private hunters to use low-flying aircraft to harass and kill almost 700 wolves.

And thousands of dedicated activists picked up the phone and personally called their Members of Congress to urge them to cosponsor the PAW Act.

These calls, emails and faxes are making a real difference. Seventy Representatives -- including yours -- have now joined the fight to end aerial hunting, with more signing on to cosponsor the PAW Act every day.

Please take a moment to thank your Representative for supporting this important legislation. Send a message now.

We're making progress in the fight to end aerial hunting of wolves, but we've got a long way to go. We've got plenty planned in the weeks ahead, so please stay tuned for details on other ways you can help.

With great appreciation,

Robert Dewey
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

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As America looks toward a new era of hope and change, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and special interests are working feverishly to expand her out-of-control wolf killing frenzy.

Governor Sarah Palin¿s aerial wolf-killing program is on a record deadly pace. Airborne sharpshooters have already gunned down 50 wolves this season.

How far will Sarah Palin go to slaughter wolves?

After state officials ruthlessly killed 14 orphaned wolf pups last year -- each with a bullet to the head -- Palin¿s Department of Fish & Game approved an aggressive policy allowing for the killing of wolf mothers and the savage shooting of newborn pups in their dens.

Now Sarah Palin is joining forces with the Alaska Outdoor Council (AOC) and other wealthy hunting lobby groups as they plan their push for legislation to expand the bloody wolf slaughter.

They¿ve already committed hundreds of thousands of dollars to expand the state-sponsored aerial wolf slaughter -- even into Alaska¿s pristine federal wildlife refuges.

With the incredible contributions from caring people like you, we were able to expose Palin¿s terrible record on wolves as she took to the national stage in last year¿s election -- helping to prevent Sarah Palin from becoming Vice President of the United States.

Now we need your support to end Sarah Palin¿s ghastly aerial wolf-killing program.

Defenders Action Fund will forcefully oppose Governor Palin and her Board of Game¿s plans to kill wolves to artificially boost game populations for out-of-state trophy hunters and fight the Palin/AOC-supported legislation to gun down even more wolves. We stopped her last year, and with your help, we can defeat her again.

But we¿re not stopping there. With a new leadership in Washington, DC comes real hope for wolves. In Congress, we can pass the Protect America¿s Wildlife (PAW) Act to end Governor Palin¿s aerial wolf slaughter -- and prevent programs like it from spreading to places like the Greater Yellowstone region. We¿ll work with the Obama Administration to close the deadly loophole that Palin exploits to kill more wolves.

And we¿ll continue to bring the fight nationwide by keeping Palin¿s wolf-slaughter program in the national spotlight.

This year, Governor Sarah Palin is aiming to slaughter more than 600 wolves in what could be the bloodiest aerial wolf-killing season ever -- now, with the help of wealthy special interests, she wants to expand the brutal program even more.

We can¿t let that happen.

56 Wolves have already been killed by aerial gunning in Alaska and more to come when the weather warms up so they can put more planes in the air to run the wolves down.Also the Yellowstone grey wolf is in extreme danger there protection has been lifted and A bounty has been set.And these people don't care if they are on protected land or not for they are not safe even there.Idaho,Wyoming,Montana will go ahead with there plans on wolf management.As they call it.

So called trophy hunters:

Just days after polar bears gained new life-saving protections, the powerful Safari Club International sued the federal government.

The reason? To once again allow wealthy U.S. hunters to kill struggling polar bears in Canada -- and bring their carcasses back as trophies.

On Monday, Defenders went to court to stop them -- but we have a tough fight ahead.

Please contribute to our emergency court action to stop polar bear trophy hunting.

Polar bears are already on the fast track to extinction. Oil companies are poised to invade their key denning habitat. Rising temperatures are melting sea ice, leading to starvation. Yet the Safari Club wants to ensure that rich hunters can keep polar bears in their gun sights.

Years ago, the Safari Club successfully lobbied for the loophole that allowed trophy hunters to kill Canadian polar bears and return to the U.S. with their heads for wall trophies and fur for rugs.

Thanks to your past support we helped close that deadly loophole when polar bears were listed as threatened on the Endangered Species Act.

But the Safari Club has deep pockets, lawyers and lobbyists

Help us keep the ban on trophy hunting and give some protection to threatened polar bears.

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Representative Pearce Fails Attempt to End Southwest Wolf Recovery
Congress votes to keep Endangered Species Act program

Washington, D.C. -- In an attempt to undermine efforts to recover wolves in the Southwest, Rep Steven Pearce (R-N.M.) today proposed terminating all funding for the federal Mexican wolf recovery program. Pearce's amendment to the FY 2008 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies appropriations bill was soundly defeated, 258-172.

Pearce tried to circumvent the Endangered Species Act, the law that governs the recovery process for rare species like wolves,said Eva Sargent, Ph.D., Southwest director with Defenders of Wildlife.Pearce's sensationalized stories exploit the losses of his own constituents in a transparent attempt to distract his colleagues from the importance of maintaining recovery programs for our nation's imperiled wildlife. He even told his Congressional colleagues that wolves are attracted to crying or laughing babies.
Pearce has consistently opposed the Mexican wolf recovery program in the Southwest. Earlier this year, he circulated a Dear Colleague letter riddled with misinformation regarding recent animal depredations in New Mexico.

Pearce's letter suggests images of wolves prowling around the schoolyards of local communities and stalking our children, and that just isn't true. There has never been one case of a wild Mexican wolf harming a person in any way,said Lisa Hummon, New Mexico representative with Defenders of Wildlife.In fact, there is not one documented case of a healthy, wild wolf ever killing a human in the United States. Pearce's claims are little more than scare tactics to turn people against this unique and imperiled creature.

The Mexican wolf is one of the rarest and most critically endangered subspecies of wolf in the world. The last known Mexican wolf in the United States was shot in 1970; six years later it was listed as endangered and protected under the Endangered Species Act. Between 1977 and 1980, the last five known Mexican wolves in the world were captured and used to initiate a captive breeding program, which helped to increase the population so the animals could be reintroduced into the wild. The first captive-reared Mexican wolves were released in January 1998 in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area. Almost 100 captive Mexican wolves have been reintroduced in the Southwest, but today biologists count only 59 wolves in the wild.

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Dear Arctic,



The killing could start any day. Alaska state officials have already begun issuing permits for this year's aerial hunting season, and hundreds of wolves could die.



So far, 29 Members of Congress have signed on to cosponsor the Protect America's Wildlife (PAW) Act, federal legislation to end aerial wolf hunting. Unfortunately, your Representative, your U.S. representative , has yet to join the fight to save wolves.



Urge your Member of Congress to cosponsor legislation to end aerial hunting of wolves in Alaska and prevent this brutal and unnecessary practice from spreading to other states. Send your message today.



Help us reach our goal of 129,000 messages by next Monday!



Together with our sister organization, Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, we've made great strides in this campaign. Over the weekend, more than 230 generous wildlife supporters contributed to support our efforts to pass the PAW Act. Thanks to these donations, we have almost all the near-term resources we need to place our powerful ads in Congress Daily.



With your help, we blocked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's grisly wolf paw bounty plan and generated more than 109,000 messages in support of the PAW Act. Now we're stepping up our campaign, and we need your help.



Help us convince your Representative to cosponsor the PAW Act. Send your message right now.



My team of policy advocates and I will be meeting with at least 15 more Congressional offices before the end of the week, urging Representatives to finally put an end to the inhumane, unnecessary and unpopular practice of aerial hunting. Can you help us make these meetings a success?



Write your Representative today and help us stop aerial hunting of wolves.



With great appreciation,



Robert Dewey

Vice President, Government Relations

Defenders of Wildlife



P.S. To stop aerial hunting of wolves, we need to bring as much pressure to bear as possible. Maximize your impact by forwarding this message to at least 4 friends!

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Alaska to impose A bounty on wolves if this takes Affect then ,the same thing will happen to the wolf that happened to the couger when A bounty was impossed them They were almost wipped out That could happen to our wolves.

Alaska Revives Bounty on Wolves

March 23, 2007

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As interest in the aerial shooting of wolves wanes in Alaska, the Board of Game has revived a long abandoned bounty program to increase the incentive to kill the animals. In a statement on March 21, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game offered nearly 200 pilots and their gunners $150 for turning in the legs of freshly killed wolves.

The HSUS is calling for an immediate halt to the program.

Every year, pilots and their gunners fly into the Alaskan wilderness to track wolves in the snow, chase them to exhaustion and then shoot the weary animals. The bounty program is only the latest round in Alaska's war on wolves.

So far this season, 98 wolves have been killed by hunters, trappers and aerial gunners. The agency's stated goal is to kill between 382 and 664 wolves. There's a good chance they won't meet this target without the incentive of a bounty since high fuel costs, reduced wolf numbers and diminished snow cover have led to diminished interest by pilots and their gunners in shooting wolves.

"Alaska Fish and Game's own data has shown that killing wolves does little to reduce predation rates," said Lauren Nolfo-Clements, wildlife scientist for The HSUS, "As alpha wolves are killed, surviving pack members increase their reproductive rates, leading to greater predation rates to feed the additional pups."

In addition to the plan to offer bounties, the Alaska Fish and Game staff members are currently requesting to be permitted to shoot wolves off of moving helicopters to increase the number of animals killed.

"The proven ineffectiveness of bounties and the broad scale environmental disturbance caused by aerial hunting programs make this proposal sound like something from half a century ago," said David Pauli, regional director of the Northern Rocky Mountain Office of The HSUS. "Surely modern wildlife professionals should have learned not to recreate the mistakes of the past and to look at habitat based solutions, and the maintenance of naturally balanced ecosystems."

The HSUS is urging people, particularly Alaska residents, to express their opposition to this plan directly to the Alaska Board of Game.

$150 dollar bounty for these 200 people to chase down and kill wolves from the air then what the rest of the wolf is left to rot.The government in Alaska makes me angry. and to think four states want to activate aerial gunning in there states.Defenders of wild life people need to stand up and say

NO!more slaughter

They are told to just bring in the legs of A fresh killed wolf.All wolf lovers unite and demand they put A stop to this senseless killing Wolves.