Alaskan Wolves Need Your Help
Bill Meadows, The Wilderness Society
Please give today to help us stop a plan to kill wolves and their pups in designated Wilderness on Unimak Island, part of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
Help us make sure this doesn’t happen. Make a donation today.
You see, caribou numbers on the 1500 square-mile island have been dropping, and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game believe that wolves are the reason. The ADFG wants the US Fish and Wildlife Service to allow the wolf hunt.
But not enough is known about the cause of the caribou herd’s decline on Unimak to make an informed decision about action. A rush to begin a wolf hunt in this American Wilderness simply doesn’t make sense, and it would be a dangerous precedent to set. Help us stop this hurried plan.
With your help, we’ve sent nearly 45,000 letters to federal planners opposing plans to hunt wolves in the Unimak national Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Now, we’re generating an avalanche of letters to Dan Ashe, President Obama’s nominee to head the Fish and Wildlife Service. As a man of science, he should listen to our call for scientific analysis before turning public lands into Alaska into slaughter grounds.
Your extra support is needed urgently because the plan to kill wolves on Unimak could be launched in May if we do not convince Ashe otherwise.
Thank You.
Bill Meadows
President
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Feb. 3, 2011