AR-News: (US AK) Keep them wild

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

The Alaska Board of Game heard much over the weekend about the buffer zone 
that was supposedly put in place to protect a couple of highly visible wolf 
packs near Denali National Park and Preserve. 
The subject has been raised in this column before, and the message here 
remains the same. There is no biological or scientific need for a buffer zone to 
extend a park and preserve that already covers 6 million acres that is off 
limits to all but subsistence hunting and trapping allowed in the preserve. 


Much has been made of the status of the Sanctuary and Toklat packs. As they 
originally pushed for the buffer zone, wildlife protection groups suddenly 
proclaimed the packs "world famous" in their publications and on their Web sites. 
This newspaper has been reporting on Denali National Park for decades and most 
folks around here had never heard of these packs until the buffer zone was 
proposed. Drop the phrases in Anytown, U.S.A., and you likely won't get past 
discussing what "Toklat" is.





full story:

http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7252~1989171,00.html 
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