10-27-04

Once autumn snowfalls permit the tracking of wolves, Alaska will begin its second aerial wolf-shooting program, intending to kill more than 500 wolves this winter.

147 wolves died in the winter of 2004 under Alaska's aerial wolf control scheme - all to appease thrill seeking hunter-pilot teams and moose hunters who boost their hunting opportunities by shooting the competition. Alaskans voted by wide margins in 1996 and 2000 to end same-day uses of airplanes for public wolf hunting and trapping.

This year more than 200,000 people have joined Friends of Animals and organizers in 28 states, the District of Columbia, Germany, Japan and Great Britain to hold Howl-Ins in protest of Alaska's disgraceful conduct. Participants and supporters have signed postcards pledging to boycott Alaska's $2 billion-a-year tourism industry until the aerial wolf-shooting scheme is cancelled.

Persistence will be the key to ending aerial predator control programs.
Aerial wolf eradication is a despicable and cowardly act of cruelty against nature.

Kindly support a tourism boycott of Alaska to put economic pressure on the people responsible for establishing the killing policy: the Murkowsky administration.

Please also write Gov. Murkowski and tell him you'll boycott travel to Alaska until his wolf control campaign ends.

Address:
Gov. Frank Murkowski
P.O. Box 11001
Juneau, AK 99811
e-mail governor@gov.state.ak.us
Phone: 907-465-3500
Fax: 907-465-3532

Thanks for all that you do.

Judy