Stephanie
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Fact on Palin and aerial animal killing:
Governor Sarah Palin has an extreme anti-conservation record on issues ranging from global warming, energy and drilling to wildlife and habitat protection.
Aerial hunting of wolves and bears
Governor Palin is an active promoter of Alaska's aerial hunting program whereby wolves and bears are shot from the air or chased by airplanes to the point of exhaustion before the pilot lands the plane and a gunner shoots the animals point blank.
Palin offered a $150 bounty for wolves to entice hunters to kill more wolves in certain parts of the state, with hunters having to present a wolf's foreleg to collect the bounty.
She actively opposed a ballot measure campaign seeking to end the aerial hunting of wolves by private hunters and approved a $400,000 state-funded campaign aimed at swaying people's votes on the issue.
She also introduced legislation to make it easier to kill wolves and bears and which would have also removed the aerial hunting initiative from the ballot and block the ability of citizens to vote on the issue.
The Board of Game, which she appoints, has approved the killing of black bear sows with cubs as part of the program and expanded the aerial control programs.
The media is currently looking into reports that state officials implementing one of the aerial wolf killing programs illegally killed five-week old wolf pups just outside their dens.
Polar Bear
The U.S. Geological Survey predicts that loss of summer sea ice - crucial habitat for polar bears - could lead to the demise of two-thirds of the world's polar bears by mid-century, including all of Alaska's polar bears. The Bush administration has proposed listing the polar bears as threatened under the ESA to help protect polar bear habitat from threats such as oil and gas development.
Governor Palin has actively opposed the listing of the polar bear despite the fact that Alaska's top marine mammal biologists agreed with the federal scientists who believed the bear should be listed. She wrote the Secretary of Interior urging him not to list the bear on the ground it might hurt the state's oil- and gas-dependent economy. After the bear was listed, she recently filed suit seeking to overturn the listing of polar bears.
The bears have decreased from 1,300 in the 1980s to about 350 today.
Just a few scant reasons of why I hate that bitch. Ok. Now you can come back in and make it all about Obama, or this report I found on Google is all lies and done by the far right far left, far innie, far outtie, far uppie and far downie, or any other excuse you can find. You wanted a reason of my hatred of her, there it is. Some of MANY reasons.
lol, my gawd you are hysterical over an animal. they have hunts all the time to take down the size of predator animals or else they will over take over the other animals on the land.. I'm sorry but you have no idea about predator animals or how to protect other animals from them. In Alaska the majority of the people there HUNT for their food. so you would rather they starve and the wolf destroy 1000s of other animals and let me tell you it isn't pretty to see a pack of wolves take down moose, caribou, reindeer, etc You just want to rant and rave about palin
we've been through this before it's no use trying to explain things. so I say, good ranting