Are Mooselini's wolf hunts illegal.

[Cleita]

It seems that hunting endangered species would fall under breaking the law although I'm not sure exactly how Alaska views this, I think the federal government might still have laws on the books. Here are two websites that seem to indicate that both the gray wolf and the arctic wolf have endangered species protection. Anyone any more knowledgeable want to weigh in?

http://www.d230.org/vja/research/science/biology/zoo2001/student27/index.htm

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2008/07/work-in-progres.html

Can we really afford another administration that has no respect for our laws?

[Cleita]

1. Here's another nice graphic website about the wolves.

http://arctic-wolf.org/

It hasn't been tended for almost a year and some of the links are broken but it still has some nice video and photos on it.

[WindRiverMan]

2. NO. Wolves are not endangered in Alaska, only the lower 48

there are about ten to twelve thousand wolves in Alaska. and that is probably biased low. There is no danger of the Alaskan wolf becoming exting up here.

[Cleita]

3. That's too bad.

I was hoping we could stick her with something. She can't be allowed to get that close to even being on the ballot. She has to go now.

[Holly_Hobby]

4. If not, it should be. It's immoral.

I wonder how many people know that the gray wolf shares 99.8% of our domestic dogs' DNA? Most of us feel it's wrong to shoot dogs, so why should we allow wolves to be shot? Wolf preservation is important to me.

Wolf attacks happen only when people feed them and the wolf becomes comfortable with people.

It's been proven that recording wolf howls and playing them back a few times a week in the fields keeps them away from livestock, this is how it's done in Europe. I'm sorry I don't have a link for that, I saw a National Geographic special on it.


“The domestic dog is an extremely close relative of the gray wolf, differing from it by at most 0.2% of mtDNA sequence....

In comparison, the gray wolf differs from its closest wild relative, the coyote, by about 4% of mitochondrial DNA sequence.”

Robert K. Wayne, Ph.D.

“Molecular evolution of the dog family”
Theoretical and Applied Genetics

http://www.fiu.edu/~milesk/Genetics.htm


I have no problem with hunting if it's truly sport, not hanging from a helicopter for example, and you eat it. Killing just to kill or to hang a head on your wall is wrong, IMO.

Ah, don't get me started :)

[Cleita]

5. I fell in love with wolves in Western Montana.

There was a pack in the Bitteroot range where my DH and I were camping. We were far away from radio or TV, so the wolves serenaded us to sleep every night. It really was cool. I suppose we should have been afraid, but we weren't.