Sarah Palin supports shooting wolves and bears from airplanes
"Sarah Palin's anti-conservation position is so extreme that she condones shooting wolves and bears from airplanes or using airplanes to chase them to exhaustion and then shoot them point blank. Most Americans find this practice barbaric, but it's routine in Alaska under Palin's leadership," said Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund president Rodger Schlickeisen.
Advocating That A Bounty Be Paid For A Wolf's Left Foreleg?
Sarah Palin has supported aerial hunting since taking office despite the fact that the National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council, the American Society of Mammalogists, and more than 120 other scientists have called for a halt to the program, citing its lack of scientific justification and despite opposition from many hunters who see it as violating the sportsmen's ethic of fair chase. Palin in 2007 even proposed offering a bounty of $150 per wolf, as long as the hunter provided the wolf's foreleg as proof of the kill. And just earlier this year, she introduced legislation to expand the program and derail a scheduled August 2008 citizens' vote on the issue. The bounty was determined to violate the state's constitution and her legislation failed.
"Sarah Palin's positions against America's wildlife could put her to the right of even the Bush administration," said Schlickeisen. "She is a promoter of one of our nation's most ugly and cruel wildlife hunting programs and Americans deserve to know her views on such matters before they vote."
Sarah Palin and the Environment
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.
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Global Warming
As recently as August 2008, Governor Palin questioned whether man-made fossil fuel emissions are responsible for global warming, defying worldwide scientific consensus (Newsmax 8/29/08). And her drill-drill-drill approach to energy issues will do nothing to ease the causes of global warming, promote the use of clean, renewable energy sources, or break our addiction to foreign oil.
Endangered SpeciesPalin has repeatedly opposed the listing of endangered animals under the Endangered Species List despite overwhelming scientific evidence that such listings are warranted.
Polar BearThe 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.
Beluga WhalesAlaska's Cook Inlet beluga whales are a unique group of white whales whose numbers have dramatically declined in the past two decades due to pressures ranging from pollution to increased ship traffic. Governor Palin opposes the listing of the Cook Inlet beluga whales, citing the listing as a threat to oil and gas development, despite their genetic uniqueness and the fact that their numbers have decreased from 1,300 in the 1980s to about 350 today.
Drilling
Palin is a strong supporter of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a vital wilderness area. It is home to hundreds of thousands of caribou who use the refuge as a calving ground, more than one million migratory birds, and countless other wildlife. It's the most important onshore denning habitat for female polar bears. Senator McCain himself has repeatedly voted to protect this pristine wilderness area. Palin is also a supporter of drilling in Bristol Bay and other offshore sites despite the risks to sensitive marine wildlife in the area, including the endangered polar bear and Beluga whale.
Clean Water and Pebble Mine
Governor Palin actively campaigned against a state ballot measure this summer aimed at protecting Alaska's Bristol Bay. The mining industry seeks to develop a gold and copper mine in the area that would pollute the Bay's headwaters and threaten the spawning grounds for the largest remaining wild salmon run. The initiative would have prevented large-scale mining operations from dumping waste materials into salmon watersheds.
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They must not get elected or steal another election...
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Im a hunter, I know lots of hunters but I dont know one real hunter who advocates this sort of hunting!
If this hunter is a "real man" then why are his eyes
blocked out? - afraid to be recognized there mr.?Anyone that does hunt this way...
or any politicain that advocates this...
or any voter that stands by this is what I would call a real chicken s--t!Palin no way!
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A friend of mine who supports Palin made a big deal out of my forwarding an email that had several photos of a king snake eating a rattlesnake. She said I wasn't living up to my image as a lover of wildlife and an environmentalist.
I had forwarded the pictures simply because the sight was something rarely caught on camera and they were very good quality pictures AND it is what goes on in nature.
I wonder how the attitude she "copped" with me will affect her support for Palin? Palin authorized a vicious aerial wolf slaughter by paying customers even when Alaska's citizen's TWICE rejected aerial hunting at the polls.
I'm sure that Palin's "positives" will far outweigh.... ...wait!
So far, from what I've seen, the negatives are way ahead of the positives.
Besides the problematic lists above there are also these things I wonder about.
However, each person must decide how much value to place on:
being FOR the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it,
having an abstinence only sex education curriculum in schools,
cutting funds for teen mom's in the budget,
still accepting Bridge to Nowhere Earmarks and using them elsewhere,
leaving the town where she was Mayor with 20 million in long-term debt,
having the guy who wouldn't fire her ex-brother-in-law fired for not firing him,
attending five different schools and taking six years to graduate with as degree in Journalism,
recording a helpful message on behalf of the Alaska Independence Party (where she attended their state convention before becoming Governor) that has been for secession from the union since it was formed,
hiring a team of attorneys to defend her in "troopergate",
hiring a lobbyist to get Wassila $27,000,000.00 in Earmarks,
flying to Washington several times to help acquire earmarks,
not going to a hospital when she first leaked amniotic fluid during her last pregnancy with Trig and giving two more speeches in Dallas afterward,
flying all the way to Alaska after leaking fluid.
I know it is cruel but you have to ask about those decisions. Did she really hope the baby would be stillborn?
Given the fact that she passed up an Alaskan Hospital that had state-of-the-art neo natal and post natal care and went to a more remote hospital makes me wonder.
And then telling everyone that the Iraq War was God's will? And then there is that whole Pentecostal Church thing. There is a reason we used to call them "Holy Rollers".
Can you envision that happening in the "war room" at the Pentagon or in concert with a McCain over-reaction to some perceived threat?
That sounds too close to what Osama Bin Laden was telling his religious zealots as he sent them off to their version of Holy War.
She has only been the VP nominee for a week and already all this is known about her?
I guess Republicans were simply "starved" for a "pretty face" and a "colorful bio" . The problem is her bio has turned out to be a little too colorful so far.
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Volunteer, give money, vote on a paper ballot. We can't let this woman anywhere near the White House.
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- Marilynn_Murray
- 1 year ago
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First of all, if I lived in Alaska, I would buy a gun and shoot at planes that were hunting wolves (and I hate guns, have never owned one, but I would do it!!!) I wouldn't care what would happen to the occupants of the plane, and, I wouldn't care what would happen to me for doing it either.
People who do this are sick. This isn't hunting. This is a cruel kind of fun for sick people.
Sarah Palin is sick, and she makes me even sicker. Send her on a hunting trip with Dick cheney, somebody, PLEASE
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- petsr4ever
- 1 year ago
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