Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

March 12, 2010

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has proposed a plan that would expand the capture and confinement of wild horses. Under his plan, tens of thousands of additional mustangs (mares and neutered stallions) would be rounded up and sent to holding facilities in the Midwest and Eastern U.S., at taxpayers’ expense. The plan would eliminate many of the wild herds that currently exist and greatly reduce the populations of the remaining herds — well below the levels needed for their continued survival. Salazar’s plan would also mandate aggressive sterilization of wild horses on public lands, essentially “managing” the wild horses into extinction.

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Boycott Alaska

March 10, 2010

Please sign this petition:

Dear Gov. Parnell: I have joined Friends of Animals’ travel boycott; please step in now to stop Alaska from controlling wolves through any and all state permits or proposals — and that includes stripping the buffer zone around Denali National Park.

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Thank you.

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Boycott Alaska Until The State Stops Targeting Wolves

March 08, 2010

Friends of Animals Declares a Boycott of Travel to Alaska in the 2010 Tourist Season, calling groups and individuals to join.

INFORMATION

The area around Denali National Park has just been opened to wolf hunters and trappers. Last Friday (5 March 2010), the state’s Board of Game voted to erase the park’s protective zone, as reported in the Anchorage Daily News, and approved opening the northeast periphery of the Denali National Park and Preserve for wolf trapping.

The 4-3 vote, over vigorous opposition of those who wanted the wolves protected, eliminates the current buffer zone that forbids trapping.

“The state’s decision is obnoxious,” said Friends of Animals’ president Priscilla Feral. “And it contradicts what the park authorities had asked for. Federal officials had recommended expanding the buffer zone to protect wolves naturally wandering outside the park’s boundaries.”

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Boycott travel to Alaska in Summer 2010

March 06, 2010

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Area around Denali opened to wolf hunters
TRAPPERS: Game board votes to erase park’s protective zone.

The Anchorage Daily News

By MEGAN HOLLAND

Published: 6 March 2010

The Alaska Board of Game on Friday approved opening the northeast periphery of the Denali National Park and Preserve for wolf trapping.

The 4-3 vote, over vigorous opposition of those who wanted the wolves protected, eliminates the current “buffer zone” outside of park lands in which wolf trapping was prohibited.

The decision swings in the opposite direction of what park authorities had asked for. The federal authorities had recommended expanding the buffer zone to protect the wolves that wander outside the park’s boundaries. Those particular wolves are the ones typically seen by busloads of tourists who visit the park every summer.

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