The greatest wolf massacre since the 1950's is now underway in Alaska. Governor Frank Murkowski has reinstated the barbaric
practice of aerial gunning. Marksmen can gun down wolves from the air that are easy targets against the fallen snow. Or they
can run the wolves to exhaustion, then land and shoot them point blank.
Murkowski's Board of Game has already approved the killing of over 1,000 wolves. They are likely
to increase that number dramatically next year.
The Federal Airborne Hunting Act was enacted by Congress to stop such aerial gunning. Defenders
has formally petitioned Interior Secretary Gale Norton to enforce this law and halt the wolf killing in Alaska. To date she's
refused to act.
