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"[i]n the spring of 2007 Alaska Governor Sarah Palin authorized a $150 bounty for any wolf killed in specific management zones." SOURCE
The Federal Airborne Hunting Act prohibits shooting or attempting to shoot or harass any animal from an aircraft while airborne. As soon as the law was enacted in 1971, Alaska discontinued the practice. SOURCE
"The bounty program established by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was deemed illegal because the Department does not have the authority to establish bounties" SOURCE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 14, 2008
Contact: Michael Frank, Trustees for Alaska, (907) 276-4244, ext. 116
Valerie Brown, Law Office of Valerie Brown, (907) 272-4544 JUDGE STRIKES DOWN PREDATOR CONTROL AND BOUNTY PROGRAMS
ANCHORAGE, AK - The State of Alaska Superior Court today released a decision stating that the constitutional principle of sustained yield applies to all wildlife
The State has argued in recent years that the constitutional provision that protects all of Alaska’s natural resources was never intended to include predators. In a case brought by Defenders of Wildlife, the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, the Sierra Club and others, the Court held that the constitution protects all wildlife, not just the species that the Board of Game defines as the most valuable to humans.
“The Court ruling today makes it clear that the Board of Game has to apply sustained yield to predators,” said Mike Frank of Trustees for Alaska, representing the plaintiffs in the case.
The court also struck down the 2006 additions to the State’s predator control areas and ruled that Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) had no legal authority to offer bounties for wolves, overturning a 2007 announcement by ADF&G offering a $150 bounty for the foreleg of each wolf killed by aerial gunners participating in the programs. SOURCE
Perhaps I'm wrong...was the Judge biased in your opinion?
The bounty program established by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was deemed illegal because the Department does not have the authority to establish bounties, though Alaska Board of Game does maintain this authority. The current bounty program was halted, though the Board of Game has the power to reinstate.
No not really....However sources like wolfsongnews isn't exactly what one would considered un biased.
No, it's much better to watch predators kill your livestock by dragging the half born animal out of it's mother and eating both alive. Sometimes you have to kill predators if there are too many. This is a manmade problem and for now, a man made solution.
Alaska is big, a chopper makes sense.
That's certainly gross but it's the way of nature, not the wolves' sadistic choice. Is there a removal (reintroduction?) program in Alaska? Alaska being so big, and all.
I dont know a magic rainbow solution of course, and I suppose it's become necessary to divert nature from taking its course in the wild, though I dont see why that's man's business.
"[i]n the spring of 2007 Alaska Governor Sarah Palin authorized a $150 bounty for any wolf killed in specific management zones." SOURCE
The Federal Airborne Hunting Act prohibits shooting or attempting to shoot or harass any animal from an aircraft while airborne. As soon as the law was enacted in 1971, Alaska discontinued the practice. SOURCE
"The bounty program established by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was deemed illegal because the Department does not have the authority to establish bounties" SOURCE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 14, 2008
Contact: Michael Frank, Trustees for Alaska, (907) 276-4244, ext. 116
Valerie Brown, Law Office of Valerie Brown, (907) 272-4544 JUDGE STRIKES DOWN PREDATOR CONTROL AND BOUNTY PROGRAMS
ANCHORAGE, AK - The State of Alaska Superior Court today released a decision stating that the constitutional principle of sustained yield applies to all wildlife
The State has argued in recent years that the constitutional provision that protects all of Alaska’s natural resources was never intended to include predators. In a case brought by Defenders of Wildlife, the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, the Sierra Club and others, the Court held that the constitution protects all wildlife, not just the species that the Board of Game defines as the most valuable to humans.
“The Court ruling today makes it clear that the Board of Game has to apply sustained yield to predators,” said Mike Frank of Trustees for Alaska, representing the plaintiffs in the case.
The court also struck down the 2006 additions to the State’s predator control areas and ruled that Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) had no legal authority to offer bounties for wolves, overturning a 2007 announcement by ADF&G offering a $150 bounty for the foreleg of each wolf killed by aerial gunners participating in the programs. SOURCE
Perhaps I'm wrong...was the Judge biased in your opinion?
They should have thrown her loony butt in jail. She acts like a real sky pilot, and a bloodthirsty one to boot.
But after killing the animal we don't go around preaching "Pro-Life".
Amen to that! Trophy killing and thrill killing are one in the same.
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