Alaska Offers Wolf-Kill Cash - AP

[Eugene]

Alaska Offers Wolf-Kill Cash

The Associated Press
Wednesday, March 21, 2007; 10:13 PM

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The state is offering cash for people to kill
wolves in an effort to boost a predator control program that has not
met expected numbers, officials said.

The incentives include offering 180 volunteer pilots and aerial gunners
$150 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,
said Denby Lloyd, commissioner for the Alaska Department of Fish and
Game, in a statement. The legs can help biologists determine wolf age
and will assist the program in the future, he said.

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Karla Dutton, director of the Alaska office of the advocacy group
Defenders of Wildlife, said in a statement: "Bounties have no place
in modern wildlife management and undoubtedly would lead to the
illegal killing of wolves."

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032102103.html

[catgirl]

1. Yup, this will lead to their near extinction...

plus, Alaska doesn't have a "predator" problem. They have a blood-thirsty
problem.

[Kolesar]

2. If I had a rocket launcher

some son of a bitch would die.

[maxsolomon]

3. in washington the state grants bear hunting permits

because the bears like to eat conifer sap when they wake up from hibernation & they damage timber.

"there's always some killin you got to do around the farm"-t. waits.

and conservatives see the entire country as a farm - that is, land whose purpose is production & profit.

[IDemo]

4. Wolf tags are $9.75 each in Idaho

And our governor, Butch Otter(his real name!), wants to be the first one to make a kill -> http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-jan1107-otter_wolves.2e33923c.html

[Nihil]

5. Wonder how much an otter tag costs ...? (n/t)

:evilgrin: