Please Do Not Tap On the Glass

What the hell is wrong with this woman and her idiot government? Black bears are not an endangered species but she seems determined to wipe them out of Alaska permanently, and take along a few endangered brown bears while she’s at it!

I read Mudflats regularly to keep up with Palin’s next plans to destroy wildlife and the environment and yesterday’s entry was shocking. Here are excerpts from AK Muckrakers’ excellent post:

The Board of Game and Department of Fish and Game aim – or at least hope – to kill up to 60 percent of the 2,500 to 3,000 black bears that, in their opinion, prey upon an unacceptably high number of moose calves in Unit 16B, a huge area that extends from the foothills of the Alaska Range to Cook Inlet and from the Yentna River southwest to Redoubt Creek (which flows off the rumbling Redoubt Volcano).

Sixty percent! If that’s not a slaughter, what is? (The state admits it is unlikely to reach that goal, but why not shoot for the moon, eh?)

There’s more.

In discussing the unprecedented use of snares to catch and then kill black bears, Board member Ted Spraker talked about the inevitable “collateral damage,” in this instance involving brown bears. It is, of course, a term he borrowed from the military.

And Ben Grussendorf, the most moderate member of the Board (which isn’t saying much), described his initial gut reaction to several proposed changes this way: “Man, this is a jihad against black bears by paramilitary groups.”

Welcome, once again, to wildlife management under Gov. Sarah Palin, where everything possible is being done to kill off the predators that compete with Alaska’s human hunters for moose and caribou. No matter that many, perhaps most, of these people live in urban areas and participate in “sport” hunts.

In fact many of the ones most interested in Unit 16 moose live in Palin country, the Mat-Su Valleys. These folks – and lots of Anchorage-area hunters, too – simply want to fill their freezers with wild game and by God the Palin administration is going to do everything it can to help ‘em out, short of controlling the weather.

The Board also voted to extend the bear baiting season in Palin’s Unit 16. And they’re also gearing up to start gassing wolf pups in their dens. Probably makes it a lot easier to dispose of them that way, than waiting for them to grow up so they can get shot from helicopters.

To make this slaughter involving SNARES fun for the whole family, the board voted 4-2 to allow children aged 10-15 to participate. I guess seeing bear cubs tortured in snares and wolf pups gassed to death in their dens is good family fun to Sarah Palin.

We need to get the word out to everyone about this war on wildlife in Alaska. Post in your blogs, on Twitter, your Facebooks, write letters to the editor, make sure the conservation NGOs you support are aware of this planned slaughter. We must stop her, once and for all.

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