BoG - Alaska Legislature Plans $1.5 Million Astroturf Fight Against Endangered Species Act
- Alaska's War on Science Needs to End
- Resource Development, Wildlife: We Need Them Both
- Alaska's Wild Game is Farmed for Benefit of Outside Hunters
- Wildlife resources managed for pleasure, profit of a few
- State's Wildlife Management Relies Too Much on Dead Animals
- Intensive Management Practices Needed for Board of Game
- Helicopter Based Snaring and Bear Baiting Program in Unit 16
- Defenders of Wildlife / Board of Game Update
- Fish and Game Policies Reveal Another Corrupt State Agency
- Wildlife Cartel Represents Circumnavigation of Ethics, Truth
- Fish and Game is Doing Lousy Job Managing the State's Wildlife
- Fish and Game Should be Honest About Killing Wolf Pups
- Misuse of Public Funds?
- Outsiders' Propaganda is Bad Fuel for the Ol' Wood Stove
- Legislators hunting down Alaska rights
- Governor Blocks Right to Vote on Hunting
- Proposed Black Bear Hunts Reveal Renegade Board of Game
- Wildlife Massacre
- Stealth Bills Take Aim at Your Right to Vote on Game Issues
- Board of Game is going overboard in its support of predator control
- Bills Would Protect Game Board from Being Called to Account
- Passage of SB 67 Would be a Tribute to Governor Hammond
- Wildlife Management Bill Goes Too Far
- 2 Public Votes on Aerial Shooting Not Enough
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Letters / Anchorage Daily News / March 28, 2009 The letter by well-known Wasilla master guide and outfitter John E. Luster ("Worst predators are two-legged ones: Impose controls on them," March 8) validates what I have been trying to say for years: The state measures wildlife management successes by the numbers of dead animal bodies -- not by thriving, living populations. It's not just permissive guiding regulations. Moose were easy to shoot and the state facilitated their massacre by allowing personal motor vehicles to chase them down. Like so many Alaskans, the state considers it very Alaskan to kill wild animals, pretend everyone lives a "subsistence lifestyle" and then blame wolves and bears for the inevitable population crashes. Just like the shrinking size of tuna in the sea, the once magnificent, mature, muscular moose in Hatcher Pass are fewer in number, smaller in size and extremely wary -- classic signs of human overhunting. Alaska imports 95 percent of its food, yet Alaskans are suckers for slogans like "living off the land." Now it's "abundance-based" management ("Abundance-based fish, game management can benefit all," Corey Rossi, F&G, Compass, Feb. 21). Alaska could support more moose, caribou, bears and wolves -- if it didn't allow so many to be shot! But all we get from Gov. Palin's wildlife death squads are inaccurate body counts and an "abundance" of bull. Rudy Wittshirk, Willow AK |
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