So, we all go out and vote for Obama, and they are still killing the wolves... only now why bother with hunting - just gas them in their dens. I guess that is technically a change.

I got this email from Rodger Schlickeisen today:

In just five days, Governor Sarah Palin's Administration slaughtered at least 84 wolves near the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve using helicopters, spotter planes and high-powered guns. And with denning season beginning soon, defenseless wolf pups and their families will soon face death from deadly snares and poison gas in and around their dens.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s cruel aerial slaughter has suddenly escalated.

Last week, Palin’s henchmen killed 66 84 wolves, using helicopters, spotter planes and aerial gunners. To make matters even worse, Palin’s Board of Game has approved the use of poison gas and deadly snares to kill defenseless wolf pups and their families in and around their dens.

Wolves are being slaughtered in record numbers. Please make an emergency donation to help us stop Palin’s killing frenzy and shine the national spotlight on her brutal massacre.

To stop the killing, we...

* Supported emergency legal efforts in state court to halt or delay the helicopter assault on wolves near the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, near the area made famous by the 1890s Alaska Gold Rush. Ironically, the state ended its effort just one day later.
* Are working on Capitol Hill with our champion Congressman George Miller of California to win cosponsors for the Protect America’s Wildlife (PAW) Act to end Palin’s barbaric aerial killing and prevent programs like it from spreading to other states; and
* Are raising public awareness in the media to Palin’s horrible wolf-killing programs in newspapers, on radio and television across the country.

In just a few weeks, Governor Palin is scheduled to appear in Indianapolis. With your emergency help, we can run this ad and ensure that citizens in Indiana and the national media covering her appearance learn the terrible truth of what Palin and her killing thugs have been up to over the last few weeks.

Please make an emergency donation today to help underwrite our state court action and advocacy on Capitol Hill and to expand our Eye on Palin campaign through our new ad.

We need to raise $185,000 by next Friday to run our ad and expand the Eye on Palin campaign. Please make your donation today.

We can win this fight with your compassionate help. Please send whatever caring contribution you can today. Thank you for all you do.

Sincerely,

Rodger Schlickeisen

TBF, as wretched as that situation is I don't think any amount of pressure is gonna do a thing, unless you can close down the cruise ships or otherwise exert economic pressure. Not only do they have economic incentive, twisted as it is, there's also the prejudice against predators and on top of that Palin is surely feeling bloody minded after the handling she's gotten in the press. What better way to give her detractors a big old finger.

I think that other than outside economic pressure only the people of Alaska can do anything about this and depicting them as blood thirsty rednecks is gonna be counter productive. Sound science and not the cherry-picked and misapplied work that her tame game department uses is the best cure. How to put that sound science in an authoritative position, I dunno.

Oh I know BP, I just so clearly remember Obama going on about saving the polar bears... and still nothing changes. Just recording another example of his duplicity (and/or inability to fight the "system") for posterity. The figurehead changes but everything else is status quo.