Originally Posted by northwestalaska
Come on Valley guy!

If we are choosing the most productive way to kill wolves we would just poison them the way that we did 50 years ago and the by catch would include lots of other things like foxes, eagles and anything else that was with in the drop zone. It is not about Killing. I know that there must be what 50-60 wolf attacks in down town Palmer and Wasilla every year right? There are so few wolf-man encounters each year that we can�t justify any form of control based upon that. Hell there are far more bear problems down on the Russian River each summer that total wolf sightings, do we start killing bears next. Let�s not stop there because once I read about a man eating Snow Shoe Hare that was terrorizing all of South Anchorage, Kill them too!

We are now entering the silly� no the stupid side of this debate!


Walt
Kotzebue, Alaska
www.northwestalaska.com

1) I almost don't know where to start with that nearly incoherent ramble! smile

2) If I'm a "valley guy" it'd be the Kenai River valley. Time to get out your gazeteer Walt, and look it up - it ain't in Palmer nor Wasilla.

3) The wolf kill program is not about reducing wolf-human contact, it about reducing wolf-moose contact.

4) Poisoning is a bad way to go as it is not a discriminating method. In this case discrimination is very good.

5) Wolves are targeted because wolves are causing the problem in "some" areas.

6) Lets stick to the topic - wolves - and leave the brown bears to another thread. Yeah, there are too many of them here too.

7) If a man wants to eat a snowshoe hare, that's fine with me too.

Other than that, it was an extremely erudite and well written post.


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