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Thirty wolves recently earned tragic fame by becoming the first killed in Alaska by land-and-shoot gunners under a state sponsored predator control program the first of its kind since the late 1980s. The wolves were killed in Alaska's Nelchina Basin as part of a plan to increase moose populations for sport hunters by killing 80 percent of the wolves in an 8,000-square-mile area. The citizens of Alaska have twice voted to ban the aerial gunning of wolves, but Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski signed a bill last June overturning the most recent ban. In response to Alaska's plan, Defenders is filing a petition claiming that the state doesn't have the right under federal law to issue aerial wolf killing permits for the purpose of increasing game populations for hunters.

http://www.savealaskawolves.org/