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Support the PAW Act - End Alaska's Aerial Hunting Program!

Target: U.S. House of Representatives
Sponsored by: Care2.com

Alaska is truly our nation's last frontier. It is also the last place in the U.S. where a few hunters still use aircraft to chase and kill wolves. They shoot these animals from the air or chase them to exhaustion before landing and shooting them point blank.

Congress passed a law thirty five years ago to put an end to aerial hunting. But Alaska is exploiting a loophole in federal law to resume the practice, not only for wolves, but bears as well. Hundreds of scientists have condemned what Alaska is doing, even as other states threaten to follow Alaska's lead. It's time to stop aerial hunting once and for all.

Rep. George Miller (CA) has introduced the Protect America's Wildlife (PAW) Act, legislation to close a federal loophole and curb Alaska's brutal aerial hunting program -- and prevent programs like it from spreading to places like the Greater Yellowstone region.

Please urge your Representative to sign on as a cosponsor to Rep. George Miller's PAW Act.

deadline: 12-31-2008
goal: 150,000

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As one of your constituents, I am very concerned about the barbaric practice of "aerial hunting" in Alaska, in which state officials are allowing trophy hunters to use aircraft to run down and kill wolves.

I also understand that officials in Wyoming and Idaho are considering the use of aerial hunting of wolves by federal and state agencies.

That's why I'm asking you to sign on as a cosponsor to H.R. 3663, the Protect America's Wildlife (PAW) Act, introduced by Rep. George Miller. The PAW Act would end needless and cruel aerial hunting of wolves and other wildlife by closing a loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act of 1972.

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We signed the “Support the PAW Act - End Alaska's Aerial Hunting Program!” petition!

# 116,550:

5:19 pm PDT, Oct 13, Susan Burnett, Kentucky

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5:11 pm PDT, Oct 13, Keely Colburn, North Carolina

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4:31 pm PDT, Oct 13, Steven Minton, Florida

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3:53 pm PDT, Oct 13, Katillac DeVille, Texas
Wolves are being made out to be a scourge when they are not. I challenge any of you to provide evidence of wolf attacks on humans. I know it has happened before, but nothing anywhere near the number of attacks on humans by our very own pet dogs. I'm well aware that wolves kill cattle, but isn't the land the ranchers are using to graze their cattle, public land? That land belongs to all of us, not just ranchers. Please, leave the wolves alone. They, like all sentient beings, have a place in this world.

# 116,546:

3:02 pm PDT, Oct 13, Laura Floriano, California

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2:43 pm PDT, Oct 13, Name not displayed, California

# 116,544:

2:33 pm PDT, Oct 13, Kris Kehe, Indiana

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2:12 pm PDT, Oct 13, Jane Du Brin, Florida

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1:58 pm PDT, Oct 13, Ursula Watson, Michigan
Shooting something from the "saftety" of an aircraft is just plain cowardice. This is not hunting. It is a way for a bunch of pansies to play with guns. It is thrill killing. And let's not even get into how much this must cost. And to think there are people in the world that must live off the land to survive. I bet they don't have an aircraft hoisting their butts around.

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1:49 pm PDT, Oct 13, Elizabeth Logan, Florida

# 116,540:

1:48 pm PDT, Oct 13, Ariadne Chodkowski, Kentucky
Please stop this disgusting so called "sport".

# 116,539:

1:37 pm PDT, Oct 13, Nick Taylor, Florida

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1:32 pm PDT, Oct 13, Cristy Fernandez, Florida

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12:51 pm PDT, Oct 13, Zach Gross, Connecticut

# 116,536:

12:43 pm PDT, Oct 13, Ana Agbaba, Serbia And Montenegro
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# 116,535:

12:37 pm PDT, Oct 13, Name not displayed, Switzerland

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12:35 pm PDT, Oct 13, Lee Michales, Ohio
I feel there sould be NO!!!! aerial hunting of wolves or any other animals. In my opinion this is the lazy cowardly way to hunt.

# 116,533:

12:23 pm PDT, Oct 13, Abbie Lemmon, Michigan

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12:20 pm PDT, Oct 13, Shara Thorpe, Canada

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12:18 pm PDT, Oct 13, Ginny Higgins, New York

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11:13 am PDT, Oct 13, Name not displayed, Texas

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11:06 am PDT, Oct 13, Name not displayed, Florida
PLEASE STOP AERIAL HUNTING OF WOLVES, THIS IS CRUEL AND SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE IN ALASKA OR ANY OTHER STATE.

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11:06 am PDT, Oct 13, PATRICIA HUBER, Illinois
AERIAL HUNTING IS AN EXTREMELY CRUEL METHOD OF KILLING AN ANIMAL THAT JUST CAME OFF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST. PLEASE MAKE SURE THE PAW ACT PASSES.

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10:46 am PDT, Oct 13, Richard Gregston, California

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10:36 am PDT, Oct 13, Kerri Hands, New York

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10:30 am PDT, Oct 13, Name not displayed, Michigan

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10:20 am PDT, Oct 13, Plumat Ingrid, France

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9:56 am PDT, Oct 13, Chris Miller, California

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9:06 am PDT, Oct 13, Jean Gilmore, Texas

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9:04 am PDT, Oct 13, Jennifer Rhoads, Illinois

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8:51 am PDT, Oct 13, Maria cristina Galasso, Italy

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8:03 am PDT, Oct 13, Sandy Mullin, Minnesota

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7:37 am PDT, Oct 13, Amy Bittner, Florida

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7:08 am PDT, Oct 13, Maria Grazia Sereni, Italy

# 116,516:

7:05 am PDT, Oct 13, Tammy DeSanchez, California

# 116,515:

6:51 am PDT, Oct 13, Christian Smith, Texas
" The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated" Mahatma

# 116,514:

6:50 am PDT, Oct 13, Desha Davis, Washington

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6:49 am PDT, Oct 13, Christine Couturier, Virginia
This is a sick, barbaric practice. Outlaw it.

# 116,512:

6:39 am PDT, Oct 13, Judy Beasley, Connecticut
Wolves don't deserve the treatment they are getting. God is watching you.

# 116,511:

6:35 am PDT, Oct 13, Vera Franco, Portugal

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6:25 am PDT, Oct 13, Jaime Kicklighter, Illinois

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6:24 am PDT, Oct 13, Karen Crowe, United Kingdom
stop all this killing.

# 116,508:

5:33 am PDT, Oct 13, Christine Powell, Virginia

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4:44 am PDT, Oct 13, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
we need to protect the animals of the world. After all they were here before us. Killing for no good reason is not acceptible. thank you

# 116,505:

4:20 am PDT, Oct 13, John F. Gay, Georgia
This is not "sport," it is senseless wholesale slaughter. If this continues we might as well support throwing dynamite in rivers and lakes to catch fish.

# 116,504:

4:17 am PDT, Oct 13, Vandeperre Michel, Belgium

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4:08 am PDT, Oct 13, Kimberly Ash, Ohio

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2:22 am PDT, Oct 13, Giovanni Ligurgo, Italy
I'm writing from Italy and it's incredible what's I've known Why do you continue to kill the wolves? And the bears too? From the fly too !! It's incredible all that. Please stop before it's too late. We must to not destroy the Earth , and all their animals, I hope to not to live alone in the Earth. I

# 116,501:

1:37 am PDT, Oct 13, Ursula Kiely, Australia

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