Vet inte var du fått informationen att vargjakt skulle vara förbjudet i Alaska? Gjorde en snabb googling och på den första kontrollerade länken (wikipedia) stod det så här om vargjakt i nordamerika. Tydligen får man på ställen i t ex Canada t o m 300 $ per dödad varg i skottpengar och året runt jakt tillåts. Och i Alaska har de tydligen vargkontrollprogram igång för att minska stammarna.
North America
In Alaska, it is illegal to shoot a wolf with a rim-fire rifle because wolves are classified as big game.[50] The state predator control program includes aerial shooting. In 2007 state biologists' goal was to have volunteer hunters kill 407 to 680 wolves by the time the predator-control season ended April 30, but high fuel prices and poor flying conditions kept hunters from meeting that goal. A subsidy of $150 per wolf offered by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was overturned by a judge on the grounds that only the Board of Game had the power to offer bounties.[51] Despite relatively heavy hunting and trapping over the last century in Alaska, wolves occur on nearly all of their traditional habitat throughout mainland Alaska.[52] Alaska currently has five wolf control programs that comprise about 9.4% of the state's land area. A closely controlled permit system is used in allowing aerial or airborne methods to remove wolves in designated areas. Wolf numbers are temporarily reduced in these areas, but are not permanently eliminated from any area.[53] Wolf populations in North America commonly sustain annual harvests or natural mortality rates of 20-40% without experiencing a year-to year decline in numbers.[52] Sarah Palin of Alaska in 2007 approved the use of this provision in the law to shoot wolves and bears while flying for the purpose of protection of property.[54]
Many scientists believe that this artificial inflation of game populations is actually detrimental to both caribou and moose populations as well as the ecosystem as a whole; artificially-boosted populations "could result in habitat destruction by moose and caribou, and ultimately, a crash in these populations." [55] This is why large numbers of people support the Protect America’s Wildlife (PAW) Act which was proposed to Congress by George Miller, the state representative of California in July 2009. This legislation has already received official support from nine former members of Alaska’s Board of Game and Wildlife and conservation groups, including Defenders of Wildlife. According to Miller, “The state of Alaska has been operating an airborne hunting program that has blatantly ignored federal law, ignored Alaskans’ opposition, ignored the science, and ignored even their own wildlife experts. It’s time to ground this air assault on wolves. The PAW Act is urgently needed to close the loophole in federal law and protect our nation’s wildlife from the unethical and unsportsmanlike practice of airborne hunting.” [56] The PAW Act has been created to close the loophole in the existing Airborne Hunting Act that has allowed Alaska legislators and officials to continue to aerial hunt. The bill would clarify under which conditions it is acceptable to use aircraft to aid in the management of wildlife. It would bar states from using aerial hunting to artificially boost game species when they are not at risk and to clarify the prohibition of harassing animals from planes which is part of the “land and shoot” hunting that is being utilized in Alaska. The PAW Act acknowledges the right of states to manage wildlife by clearly stating that wildlife agencies may use planes to respond to legitimate biological emergencies in wildlife populations. It also states that aircraft may be used for animal control where land, livestock, water, pets, crops, or human health are at risk.[55]
An estimated 15% of Canada and Alaska's wolf population of 6,000-7,000 is harvested annually. Ontario ceased its wolf bounty system in 1972, though retaining a year round open season for wolves.[2] In Alberta, wolves bounties are still offered by some local governments. Starting in 2010, the Municipal District of Big Lakes offered a bounty of C$300 per adult wolf, leading to 290 wolves worth $87,000 by mid-2012.[57]
http://en.wikipedia.g#North_America
Som du vet så är det i Sverige riksdagen som har gett tillstånd till jakt av varg, men det betyder ju inte att det är rätt pga att de folkvalda har bestämt att det är tilllåtet och det samma gäller i Alaska.
Den kände vargforskaren Gordon Haber, Ph.D säger följande rörande vargen i Alaska, låt mig citera
“Unfortunately there are major problems for wolves in Alaska and elsewhere from heavy government-sanctioned killing, including with the use of airplanes and snowmobiles. There have even been Mengele-like experiments to convert their vibrant family groups (so-called packs) to sterile pairs across large regions. The vital underlying patterns of variation that define natural wolf-prey systems are being ignored and replaced. This is being done with parochial, anti-adaptive farming approaches to management that seldom if ever produce and sustain the high, stable numbers and yields of moose and caribou touted by proponents. Perhaps worst of all, these problems originate primarily from biologists and remain largely hidden from public notice due to outright deception”
Jag antar att även i Alaska så som i Sverige så har man en stark lobbyversamhet för att övertyga de folkvalda om den farliga vargen. En vargskräck som grundar sig på skrönor och myter från en tid då människor i Sverige fortfarande trodde på tomtar och troll.
Här finns bara enstaka vargar, som aldrig blir särskilt långlivade, eftersom staten bestämt att detta är ett område där det inte ska få finnas vargar. Vargar går liksom inte ihop med modern renskötsel.
Men för mitt eget vidkommande så kunde vi lika gärna från statens sida lösa in och lägga ned all renskötsel, låta renarna förvildas och låta de utgöra vargmat istället. Så kunde lapparna leva på att slöjda och guida naturturister istället. Fast jag tror nog inte de ca 2000 personer som har sin huvudsakliga utkomst från rennäringen tycker detsamma som jag.
När du ändå tar upp same problemet så kan jag upplyssa att det var ingen som sa något när man sa upp 1000 tals arbetar på Volvo 2008 och framöver, men nåde den som skulle komma med ett sådant förslag som du kommer med. Det är lika tabu som att ta upp att vi har problem med en del av våra invandrande och att vi bör "mota Ole i grind..."
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