AR-News: (US-ak)State wolf-control measures bag 114 moose predators

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FAIRBANKS -- Aerial predator control programs this winter have killed up
to 114 wolves and attracted more than 50,000 protest messages from the
Lower 48, state officials said.

Aerial hunters killed 103 wolves in Game Management Unit 13, in the
Nelchina Basin near Glennallen. Hunters have killed 11 wolves near McGrath
in Game Management Unit 19D East.

The state hopes to remove 140 wolves from the Nelchina Basin and 40 from
the McGrath area to stop a decline in the moose populations.

The state resumed aerial wolf hunts after Gov. Frank Murkowski entered
office following a ban that has lasted more than a decade.

The last aerial wolf control program by Gov. Wally Hickel was called off
after a tourism boycott by animal-rights groups opposed to the hunts.

Friends of Animals, a Connecticut-based animal-rights group, has vowed a
boycott of Alaska in summer. The group has organized more than 100
"howl-ins" in cities around the Lower 48 to muster support for the boycott.

full story:
http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/4853436p-4790075c.html

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