Co-Sponsor the PAW Act(S. 1535 & H.R. 3381)

  This past weekend, Alaska officials began using spotter planes and a helicopter to track and kill roughly two hundred wolves in the Fortymile Region of Alaska near the Yukon-Charlie Rivers National Preserve. 

  So far, more than 1,000 wolves have been chased down by gunmen in low-flying aircraft and killed with high-powered rifles. Last year alone, more than 250 wolves were killed -- making the 2008/2009 aerial wolf killing season one of the deadliest in years.

  State agents GUNNED DOWN 84 wolves in 6 days last March and plan to KILL roughly TWO-THIRDS of the wolves that range near these federal lands this year.
  In its latest meeting, the states Board of Game approved a plan to expand aerial gunning of wolves in other parts of the state and voted to allow wolf trapping just outside Denali National Park.
  This brutal practice has been condemned by wildlife biologists, hunters and conservationists from Alaska and around the world.
  In 1971 Congress passed the Federal Airborne Hunting Act legislation specifically designed to outlaw exactly this type of unfair and unfounded killing.  
  Congressman George Miller and Senator Dianne Feinstein have introduced the Protect Americas Wildlife (PAW) Act, federal legislation to end the controversial practice of using aircraft and gunmen to chase and kill wolves in Alaska.
   The PAW Act would help restore science and integrity to wildlife management on America's Last Frontier by

* Requiring states to provide a scientific foundation for their use of aerial gunning.

* Barring states from using aerial gunning to artificially boost game species populations.

* Clarifying the conditions under which states can use aircraft to kill wolves and other predators to protect wildlife.