I recently received a call to action from my great friend and fellow blogger AkMuckraker.
There is an election meeting on Tuesday night of the Citizens Advisory Council to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Last year three conservation minded board members were elected and in one year they were able to do the following:
Support the expansion of the Denali Wolf Buffer Zone;
Restrict Nonresidents from hunting in predator control areas;
Support the proposal to end wolverine trapping in Chugach State Park
However this year the "Look I have a gun and it proves I am a man!" crowd are mobilizing their members to vote to put into place new board members who look at the wolves and see fur hats and mounted trophies instead of majestic wild creatures.
So we are asking all of you who want to protect these amazing creatures to drive over to the Anchorage School District Education Center, which is located at 5530 E Northern Lights Blvd, walk into the School Board room, and cast your vote.
The Alaska bloggers, the wolves, and I thank you for your support.
Namaste
(You can read AKMuckraker's post about this issue here.)
Gryphen, she made Gawker once again!
ReplyDeleteYou and Parnee or Brian Nolan should really get together on this one!
http://gawker.com/5439631/we-were-right-about-sarah-palins-personal-email-account?skyline=true&s=x
Gryphen,
ReplyDeletewhile I am NOT an Alaskan, I would still like to comment. As a native Minnesotan ( no longer live there) I would like to let ALL Alaskans know that the Minn DNR has successfully brought back the wolf pop in Northern Minnesota ( as a land owner{still own the land} I would like to comment).
The higher wolf population has strengthened and made a healthier deer population. I have shared my land with a wolf pack for 15 yrs( 10 of which I lived on it sharing) I had livestock, horses and cattle--never lost even one to wolves--there are "natural deterents" to protect your herds--I used llamas in with my cattle and a mule and an adopted mustang in with my horses. FYI, llamas, mules, and mustangs will stand their ground and protect the herd.
But we never had an incident, because wolves prefer deer, rabbits and rodents( yes wolves are great hunters of mice) and as long as they have their "choice" of game will not choose to "hunt" livestock.
As a hunter, landowner, conservationist, native american...the re-interduction of the wolf in Norhern Minnesota has had a positive impact. Healthier, larger deer herds, very few incidences of livestock kills ( and those were due to incompetent owners that chose not to protect their stock with simple means).
The best thing for ANY region is to have a balanced healthy environment for ALL native species...please protect and cherish ALL of your members of your environment in Alaska, its best for your state and your future generations of Alaskans to have a healthy well-balanced environment like nature intended.
Thank you CR46 for your post about the true value of wolves and their importance in a true environmental balance as nature intended; not one chosen by the Viagra crowd. Gryphen, I know you will be there tonight along with Shannyn and AKM. Right?!
ReplyDeleteOver the weekend, I went to a party where charades was played. The name "Sarah Palin" came up, and the clue was a female shooting things from above. EVERYONE got immediately that it was Sarah Palin going after the poor wolves.
ReplyDeletei also don't live in alaska but would like to help.
ReplyDeleteany suggestions?
bill in belize
Bill in Belize, please go to www.wolfsongalaska.org. This site is a veritable treasure trove for anyone interested in wolves, not only in Alaska, but literally all over the world, and what you can do to help them. Another good site is www.defenders.org for Defenders of Wildlife. They have worked for years to stop the aerial gunning of wolves in Alaska. There is also information on the wolves of Idaho and Yellowstone, as well as the Mexican Grey wolf in the southwestern US.
ReplyDeleteSlightly off topic, but if you're not familiar with the work of Paul Nicklen, run, do not walk, to YouTube.com and search Polar Obsession. His work for National Geographic, documenting extreme arctic climates, is jaw-dropping in its magnificence. I suspect the moving, visceral power of his images could do as much or more to motivate advocacy for endangered polar ecosystems and their animal inhabitants than legislative action. And there are narwhals. Yes, narwhals.
ReplyDeleteI like the guy on the right.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if people outside of AK can voice their opinion, but I am going to...after all, we in the lower 48 visit and maybe we won't want to come, seeing how they disrespect precious wildlife up there? A poster on Shannyn's FB posted this very good info, you can fax your views!
ReplyDeleteHere are one person's talking on the proposed Board of Game actions. They were submitted to me by a friend who cares. Be at the BOG meeting on January 15, or submit the comments by mail or email, if you agree. There are two files: one is a text file, the other a PDF.
1) http://www.my-alaska.com/outgoing/TalkingPointsForm.txt... See More
2) http://www.my-alaska.com/outgoing/TalkingPoints.pdf
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After all, selling black bear gall bladders has been taboo here forever. Don't let the BOG violate basic decency with some proposals which I thought were disdained even in the barbaric middle ages. Let's show some respect for what Alaska is all about.
Thanks to Brit for this valuable info...
Game idea, Wolves in helicopters shooting at naughty monkeys with silly string....$'arah paylin, why do you hate wolves?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful creatures that deserve so much more that being murdered by us bi-pedals who have this insane belief that we idiots "rule" over them.
ReplyDeleteSarah, if you truly enjoy murdering these animals... such as yourself, because we are All animals (look it up), then you are truly an evil human who deserves no such equality of life.
To 'have to eat' is one thing... but to have that blood-lust appetite to murder a helpless living creature in this form?
Might we call you the abortion doctor of the wolves?
I think I will.
(except their mothers never had a choice to breed -- or not to.)
Bloody hypocrite.
Candidate for the Citizen's Advisory Council Steve Flory is a convicted child sex offender.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.courtrecords.alaska.gov/pa/pa.urd/pamw2000.o_case_sum?61266800