Alaska Governor Fires Back At Rep. Miller On Aerial Wolf Management Practice
September 29, 2007
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin decided not to sit quietly by while California Congressman George Miller, filed a bill to stop the use of aerial wolf management practices. According to KTUU News, Palin told Miller to stop listening to the lies of the special interests.
In her letter sent Thursday, Palin accuses Miller of not doing his homework about Alaska’s predator control program. The letter urges Miller, “…not to swallow the rhetoric of special interest advocacy groups trying to raise money for their inaccurate campaigns.”
Palin went on to explain the state’s efforts to control wolf populations.
“Scientifically based predator control programs will continue in Alaska because we want to increase moose and caribou populations, especially for those rural Alaskans who are so reliant on that game to fill their freezers and feed their families,”
Miller continues to see this as a federal government issue.
“People of the country, last time they visited this issue made it very clear that they wanted it outlawed. They saw this as inhumane, they saw it as inconsistent with standards of hunting,”
Tom Remington
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It’s good to see a Governor standing up and doing the right thing. I am completely loving it.
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Hunting from an airplane is inhumane. You can’t get a clean shot off, so the wolf gets wounded, bleeds all over the snow, and dies slowly. Or the planes just chase the wolf til he’s exhausted. Then they land and the shooter gets out and pops the wolf from close range. Not sportsmanlike. Lazy, cowardly, and inhuman. Just callin it like I see it.
Oh, you’ve been there and witnessed it for yourself?
We’ve seen video. Even if I hadn’t, it certainly cannot be a nice thing — aggressively chasing a very strong animal in its own natural habitat (doing nothing to anyone but trying to survive like the rest of us) to exhaustion by an airplane in order to shoot it. They miss the first couple times too and usually only maim the animal until they go in for the final kill.
It’s treating our wildlife like they’re criminals. The pilots are the criminals. This practice needs to be outlawed.