AR15 Slaughter of Denali Wolves... Graphic pics

[Cattledog]

Washington, DC, April 3, 2018 — The State of Alaska is scrambling to shut down hunting and trapping adjacent to Denali National Park over concerns that excessive kills may destabilize this iconic wolf population. Photos posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) show a man armed with an AR15 semiautomatic rifle displaying ten wolf carcasses outside Denali.

In an emergency order issued on March 30, 2018 and revised yesterday, Alaska Department of Fish & Game (DFG) cut short the hunting and trapping season on state land along the Stampede Trail, including land adjacent to the eastern boundary of Denali National Park and Preserve. The stated reason for the order is that –

“The wolf harvest this season in the area described is more than the past 5-year average and there is the potential for more harvest to occur before the end of the regulatory hunting and trapping seasons.”

While DFG claims in its order that “There are no conservation concerns for wolves” in the Denali region, the agency admits that it has no idea how many wolves have been killed this year. Moreover, the state has not acknowledged reports that a hunter on a snow machine armed with a semiautomatic rifle recently killed ten wolves outside Denali.

“While I am glad that Governor Walker has acted I am concerned that it may be too little, too late,” said Rick Steiner, a retired University of Alaska professor and PEER board member, who has led the charge for permanent buffer zones around Denali. “The historic high level of take has already altered wolf ecological dynamics, not counting these reports of additional kills just now coming in.”

Studies show hunting and trapping outside Denali is having a big impact on the viability of wolf packs inside Denali, which is Alaska’s top tourist attraction, drawing more than a half-million visitors annually. Not only are Denali wolf family groups disrupted, but visitor-viewing success has plummeted as well.

Similarly, at Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, hunting has so decimated wolf packs that the National Park Service had to end a more than 20-year research program on predator-prey relationships. Its scientists found that the wolf population in the 2.5 million acre national preserve is “no longer in a natural state” nor are there enough survivors to maintain a “self-sustaining population.”

Significantly, Alaska has agreed to participate in an independent National Academy of Sciences review of its predator control programs for the first time in 20 years since the administration of Governor Tony Knowles (1994-2002), the only governor in Alaska history to prohibit lethal predator control programs.

“Alaska’s predator control program is clearly out of control,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. “Alaska should put predator control on hold until it gets a handle on what is actually occurring.”

In response to the recent excessive losses at Denali, Alaska citizens are renewing their call for the Governor to establish a permanent no-kill buffer protecting all park predator species – wolves, bears, lynx, wolverines – along the boundary of Denali, to restore the natural ecosystem and visitor viewing success in the park.

https://yubanet.com/usa/assault-rifle-slaughter-of-denali-wolves/

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Wearing hoods makes you safe?

Wolves are needed to keep the ecosystems balanced between predator and prey.

People are so dumb.

[brush]

3. Yes. There was a post on here from last year about how killing off wolves even affects rivers.

Here it is.

[True Dough]

2. Disgusting!

I'm not opposed to subsistence hunting and sometimes culls are necessary to prevent overpopulation but posing like you're some sort of hero because you destroyed a bunch of creatures by pulling a trigger and spraying bullets in their direction is reprehensible.

[SonofDonald]

4. Subsistence hunting is ok but

I've never heard of anyone eating Wolf.

This is beyond disgusting.

[Bayard]

5. This just makes me cry

This is called a "harvest"!. Its a goddamn massacre by some asshole with an automatic weapon on a snowmobile. Wolves don't understand park boundaries. I've seen documentaries where so called hunters can't wait to kill them the moment they cross over.

Sickening, sickening, sickening.

[Duppers]

7. I'm TOTALLY with You!

These fuckers may as well go shoot neighborhood dogs out for a romp, except that wolves are smarter than domesticated dogs.

Over population? BULLCRAP. There was never an elk, deer, wolf etc. over-population before the European humans overpopulated the N. American continent. There was a balance. Humans are out of balance and are killing the whole planet.


This is just more macho, blood-thrill, ego-centered cruelty!

I'll just have to send more $ to Defenders of Wildlife now.

[democratisphere]

6. Must be the equivalent of ISIS wolf assassinaters.

Chicken sh'ts don't dare show their faces because they are a bunch of wimpy cowards. This carnage on the wolves must stop. These assassins need to be identified and exposed to the world.

[defacto7]

8. Grrrrrr...

A bunch of psychopaths.

[Botany]

9. scum

A high speed snowmobile and a semi automatic military weapon to
slaughter such wonderful creatures ..... generational dumb ass anti
environmental thoughts leads to this kind of awful slaughter. No doubt
these toxic people listen to Rush, Fox, and their pastors.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Absolutely disgusting!