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[ubiquitous_a]

Dem Senators Take On Palin, Offer Bill To Ban Aerial Wolf Hunting

As she gave up her governorship on Sunday, Alaska Republican Sarah Palin took a dig at her "Hollywood" detractors for pushing their anti-gun sentiments on the "non-elites."

"You're gonna see anti-hunting, anti-Second Amendment circuses from Hollywood,'' she said. "They use Alaska as a

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[eyetosky]

You know, it wasn't even the shooting part that was a problem for me. You can defend that a hundred different ways, saying the wolves were too close to civilization/ a playground/ your mom.

It's the fact that fly slowly behind them, lettig them run until they may as well fall dead from exhaustion, then shoot them. It's like pulling wings off flies, but with massive wastes of fuel.

[squid_ink]

wolves don't eat people

you're getting them mixed up with dingos and babies LOLOL

[eyetosky]

Never. Said. They ate people.

Okay, fine. Overpopulation threatening the ecosystem.

[ixscarexmyself]

Every time I have to refer to my fiance as fiance, I always hear Elaine's voice in the back of my head. "maybe the dingo ate your baby." too funny.

[popehippo]

The fact that they're hunting wolves is just... WTF-worthy. Aren't they an endangered species just about everywhere in the Americas?

[beuk]

But, but, they're Canadian wolves!

(actual argument from people who are anti-wolf and have no idea how ecology works)

[red_pill]

THOSE ILLIGLE WOLFS, COMEIN IN ACROSS OUR UNPROTECTED BOARDER. WE NEED TO STOP THEM BEFOR THAY ATTACK NEWYORK. ITS ASKING FOR TERROIST WOLVES TO JUST CROSS. CANT YOU SEE!!!

[crossfire]

The reintroduction of wolves has been so successful in the US that in May of this year they were removed from the Endangered Species list.

[ateenwriter]

WHO THE FUCK EATS WOLF?!

[cutekawaii]

Uhm I mean I always thought that people shot wolves from choppers not so much for sport but to keep them out of civilian areas and to keep other wildlife populations high?

[cutekawaii]

In Alaska, it is illegal to shoot a wolf with a .22-caliber rifle because wolves are classified as big game.[48] The state predator control program includes aerial shooting. In 2007 state biologists' goal was to have volunteer hunters kill 407 to 680 wolves by the time the predator-control season ended April 30, but high fuel prices and poor flying conditions kept hunters from meeting that goal. A subsidy of $150 per wolf offered by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was overturned by a judge on the grounds that only the Board of Game had the power to offer bounties.[49] Despite relatively heavy hunting and trapping over the last century in Alaska, wolves occur on nearly all of their traditional habitat throughout mainland Alaska.[50] Alaska currently has five wolf control programs that comprise about 9.4% of the state's land area. A closely controlled permit system is used in allowing aerial or airborne methods to remove wolves in designated areas. Wolf numbers are temporarily reduced in these areas, but are not permanently

[lied_ohne_worte]

An estimated 15% of Canada and Alaska's wolf population of 6,000-7,000 is harvested annually.

"Harvested"? They aren't plants.

And as for "keeping them out of civilian areas"? Wolves don't eat people, no matter how much they'd like to keep that myth alive.

[lo8a]

Actually, considering that the carcasses are typically utilized in some way, the term "harvest" is not inappropriate -- the word has several semantic meanings.

Unfortunately it's no myth that wolves do cause problems in residential areas which is actually worse for them in the long run because bad run-ins with wolves create long term public opinion damage. It's pretty common for wolves to kill pets and cause some of the same damages that bears do. Also, wolves sometimes do attack people. Several such incidents have been described in Int'l Wolf magazine (from the Int'l Wolf Center).