I don't think it has anything to do with wildlife management. I think it has everything to do with "sport." The wildlife population pretty well takes care of itself--predators take care of the smaller prey animals (moose, deer, etc), and the weak predators die naturally, or kill one another during pack in-fighting. Survival of the fittest and all.
The problem is, hunters are pissed that they can't kill the moose themselves when the wolves and bears are doing it for them, so their solution is to slaughter the wolves and bears--by aerial hunting, which is a really unncessary, brutal practice. The animals have NO fighting chance when they're being shot out of a plane in the wide open spaces with nothing for protection.
I live in Illinois. My dad is a deer hunter. Here, population control is necessary, because we don't have any large predators around to take care of the situation naturally, so when there are a large number of deer, car accidents rise and people die. That is not the case in Alaska.
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Date: 2008-09-16 02:04 pm (UTC)The problem is, hunters are pissed that they can't kill the moose themselves when the wolves and bears are doing it for them, so their solution is to slaughter the wolves and bears--by aerial hunting, which is a really unncessary, brutal practice. The animals have NO fighting chance when they're being shot out of a plane in the wide open spaces with nothing for protection.
I live in Illinois. My dad is a deer hunter. Here, population control is necessary, because we don't have any large predators around to take care of the situation naturally, so when there are a large number of deer, car accidents rise and people die. That is not the case in Alaska.