They try to give the impression that it is some sort of sport hunting. All the wolves are taken by either DF&G employees or, mostly, by professional hunters on contract to DF&G. Sport hunters cannot hunt ANYTHING from the air or take game on the same day they are in the air. Trapping the wolves would also be an option, but I’ll admit that I recoil from leg-hold trapping. A quick death from a well-placed shot is much more humane than hours or days in a leg hold before the bullet. Wolves are trapped for their fur here and Alaska remains one of the few places left that you can safely wear fur. You’ll see lots of fur parkas in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and the Interior; not so much here in Southeast since it isn’t as cold and rain and fur are not a good mix.

While urban Alaskans, White and Native, do take caribou and moose, few if any are dependent on them for food. I’ve lived in Alaska for 34 years and I’ve taken one moose and one caribou to say I did. I like beef a LOT better and stopping at the grocery store to pick up a couple of steasks is a lot less work than packing out a thousand pounds of moose. There is NO sport in hunting caribou; it’s like walking out in a pasture and shooting somebody’s cow. It is however very hard work to get to them and to pack them out. Rural, or Bush, residents are somewhat dependent on taking moose and caribou. There are few jobs in the villages and food comes in by air freight at enormous cost. Nobody would likely starve if there were no moose or caribou for subsistance hunters, but rural people would eat much less well.

But the programs have to be restarted periodically because wolves reproduce at much faster rates than caribou or moose. Wolves are born in litters of four to six pups, while moose and caribou mostly have just one calf at a time.

Alaskan natives don’t necessarily face starvation when the herd populations are reduced to very low levels. They have other alternatives, but all of them are burdensome. They can purchase meat at very high prices. But most natives cannot afford to buy it. When the herds’ numbers are depleted, some natives feel compelled to illegally harvest more whales than the law allows.

Which begets another irony. Some of the “save the wolves” moonbats are also “save the whales” moonbats, and they don’t realize that they are working against themselves.These people are so intellectually lazy that they don’t bother to learn anything about wildlife management. There is sound reasoning and biological science behind predator control, yet the moonbats accuse Palin of supporting “unscientific” methods to keep the wolf populations and the herd populations in check.

A ten-year old could understand the reasoning behind predator control once it is explained to him or her, but the moonbats can’t. Do you really think they are that stupid? Many of them may be, but not all. That’s why I believe that the people behind all of this wolf hysteria are only using it as a smokescreen as part of a larger effort to try to take down Palin politically before she can challenge the Democrats nationally. This is just one example of the sort of deception that the Dems routinely.engage in to try to cripple threats before they become threats.

For another example, learn how Obama won his U.S. Senate seat.He used the FOI act and court challenges to unseal divorce records of his opponents so he could run virtually unopposed. For months in Alaska, Palin’s political opponents have been using court challenges to get access to her e-mail messagea,,including her personal e-mail traffic.

Do you really think that kid in Tennessee, (whose father is a state Rep.) hacked into her e-mail account simply as an act of random cyber-vandalism? After he had hacked into Palin’s account and read her e-mails,he told his fiends in a message posted on a website:

“I read though the emails… ALL OF THEM… before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor…. And pictures of her family…”

There’s a woman in Alaska who routinely files ethics complaints against Palin with the state attorney general. That’s all she does. All of her complaints have been dismissed or found to be without merit. When one complaint is dismiised, she files another. The purpose is simply to keep Palin’s name assiciated with “ethics complaint” in the news. Investigating her complaints has cost the state over $100,000 so far.

Sarahcuda scares the living crap out of these people because they realize her political potential. they know that she will do her national and international policy homework over the next four years and ges a good media consultant, and they are desperate to nip the Palin phenomenon in the bud before she has a chance to do that.

- JP
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- JP

Maverick researcher Shaun Ellis raises abandoned wolf cubs and teaches them, by example, how to survive in the wild — living and behaving like them, howling, licking and snarling like them, even eating carcass meat like them.

Can’t he just teach them to be herbivores next time?

- JP

If they think they can control the weather and climate then you know they think they can rebuild land that falls into the ocean.

; )

So Ashley Judd is in favor of letting Alaskans starve for her wolves?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0E6geAq1k8

It’s description says:

Breath-taking images of a wolf chasing and capturing a caribou in the wild. Brilliant images from BBC natural history masterpiece, ‘Planet Earth’.