Dear suppporters,
Just when we thought the state of Alaska's war on wildlife couldn't get any more gruesome, the state is trying to kill wolves from helicopters on a national wildlife refuge.
What's more, Ken Salazar's Department of the Interior, which is charged with managing the refuge for the preservation of wildlife, is actually considering allowing this massacre to go forward. Alaska and Interior's rationale for the wolf killing is that Unimak Island's caribou herd is declining -- but there's little evidence that wolves are to blame.
Aerial killing is as inhumane as it is unnecessary. Wolves are gunned down from the sky or chased to exhaustion. In some cases, wounded wolves escape, only to experience a slow, painful death. And because the state's plan is to kill wolves during the pup-rearing season, pups may be orphaned and left to die when their mothers are killed.
Please, help stop the slaughter now. Click the link below to take action and tell the Interior Department to say no to aerial killing of wolves on our public lands.
Please take action by January 31, 2011.
You can also contact Secretary Salazar: E-Mail: feedback@ios.doi.gov
or send your comments to the Bureau of Land Management at this Webmail page: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/National_Page/Contact_Us.html
Click here to find out more and take action.
Center for Biological Diversity
Subject: Do Not Allow Alaska to Kill Unimak Wolves
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Unimak Caribou Herd Environmental Assessment. I urge you to adopt Alternative A, the No Action Alternative, which would not allow the state of Alaska to kill wolves on Unimak Island. The Unimak caribou herd's population numbers have fluctuated greatly over the years, and there is no evidence to show that wolves are to blame for the current decline. There is also no evidence to show that killing wolves will increase the island's caribou numbers. The federal government must not support Alaska's foolhardy wolf massacre in a federal refuge and wilderness area.
