Help Stop the Wolf Massacre in Alaska

Please read this article and follow the link to sign this petition. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Since 2003, more than 1,000 wolves have been slaughtered under the State of Alaska's aerial wolf killing programs, shot dead by airborne gunners with high-powered rifles or chased to exhaustion and executed at point-blank range.

To artificially inflate Alaska's moose and caribou populations -- often for the benefit trophy hunters that don't even live in Alaska -- outgoing governor Sarah Palin accelerated the killing in recent years. This year alone, more than 250 wolves have been killed -- putting the 2008/2009 aerial wolf killing season on pace to become the deadliest in years.

Congressman George Miller will soon re-introduce the Protect America's Wildlife (PAW) Act, federal legislation to end the controversial practice of using aircraft and gunmen to chase and kill wolves in Alaska.

Complete the form below to urge your representative to sign on as an original co-sponsor of representative George Miller's re-introduced PAW Act help end this awful practice in Alaska and prevent it from spreading to places like the Northern Rockies.

Change.org - Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund: Help Stop the Alaska Wolf Massacre

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49th State Celebrates the big 5-0

Happy birthday, Alaska.

Our nation's 49th state, the biggest of them all, celebrated the big 5-0 this year.

With 570,374 square miles of land, Alaska is hardly homogenous. The state is divided into five distinct regions for travelers to consider, each diverse and multilayered.

Trying to sum up Alaska in a short story is akin to writing the history of the world on a postage stamp.

Here is the tip of the iceberg (glacier?) on the regions, with information culled from www.

travelalaska.com, an excellent Web site run by the Alaska Travel Industry Association.

The Columbus Dispatch : Checking In | Cindy Decker commentary: 49th state boasts endless opportunities for visitors

From Here to Alaska

When Steve Perrins and Denise Beliveau were growing up in these parts, they went to Manchester High School West.

Then they really went west.

In fact, they went north and west, and starting tonight, all of America — well, at least that portion of America that receives the television network known as RFD-TV — will see what they’ve been up to for the past 30 years or so.

UnionLeader.com
- New Hampshire news, business and sports - From here to Alaska: Meet
Steve, Denise and their five sons - Monday, Jul. 6, 2009