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Feb. 19, 2004 Alaska gunning down wolves from the air
Sixty-three wolves have been gunned down under Alaska's new aerial gunning program in the last month. Even worse, the plan is to kill 80% of the wolves in the 8,000 square mile area of the Nelchina Basin.

Aerial hunters gun the wolves down from the air, or chase them to exhaustion in the deep snow, then land and shoot them point-blank. Under the pretense of boosting moose populations for hunters, aerial hunters can even kill pregnant females and wolf pups. Numerous scientific studies show that wolves are actually beneficial to the overall health of natural ecosystems, and keep Alaska's moose and caribou populations healthy
and strong.