This continued persecution of wolves is a reflection on  American values
about nature and wildlife.  Wolves could be eradicated like the buffalo. 
Phyllis

FAIRBANKS — The Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the National Park
Service are still posturing over the killing of two wolves wearing park
service collars during the state’s aerial assault on wolves in the upper
Yukon-Tanana region earlier this month.

Regional supervisor David James with the Department of Fish and Game in
Fairbanks has finished an investigation into the shootings of the
collared wolves, which were among 15 wolves state wildlife biologists
killed from a helicopter during three days as part of its aerial predator
control program in the Fortymile region.

But department spokeswoman Cathie Harms said details of how and why the
wolves were shot will not be released until state officials meet with the
park service on Tuesday, at the earliest.

The meeting will be “to discuss the results of the report and the best
way to avoid conflicts in the future,” Harms said.
The killings of the two collared wolves on March 17 was a mistake the
department attributed to “complicating factors,” one of which is a
“possible collar malfunction,” according to a Department of Fish and Game
news release following the incident.

The two collared wolves, along with two other wolves without collars,
were shot just outside the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, which
borders the state land on which the department was conducting its aerial
control effort.
The pack was one of seven the park service has radio-collared wolves in
as part of a research project to study their movements and behavior. 

The park service says it provided radio frequencies for all seven
collared packs to the state so its crews could identify them and asked
the state to avoid shooting any collared wolves, an informal agreement
the state agreed to.

Yukon-Charley superintendent Greg Dudgeon said he is still considering a
possible closure to the general hunting and trapping seasons in the
preserve because the elimination of the Webber Creek Pack has reduced the
number of wolves in the preserve to lower numbers than normal at this
time of year.

Biologists had detected a 38 percent drop in the preserve’s wolf
population before the Webber Creek Pack was eliminated, Dudgeon said. The
park service has a mandate to manage for “healthy” wildlife populations,
he said.

The park service held a public meeting in Eagle on Monday to discuss the
possible closure with residents in the Yukon River village that borders
the preserve.

Dudgeon said opinions ranged from “the state needs to stop predator
control” to “the state should take as many wolves as possible.” There
were also people who said the park service should do nothing, he said 

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