Same day airborne wolf hunting, also known as "land and shoot," is the practice of spotting wolves from a plane and then landing and immediately shooting them from the ground. This practice was legal to anyone holding a $15 trapping license or a $25 hunting license. The practice was controversial -- even amongst hunters � because it is considered unsportsmanlike, unethical and nearly impossible to regulate. It also leads to many other violations of hunting regulations such as chasing, herding and harassing wolves.
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In February 2004, Defenders of Wildlife submitted a petition to Secretary of Interior Gale Norton requesting that she issue regulations clarifying that the Federal Airborne Hunting Act does not allow the use of aircraft to kill wolves for the purpose of boosting game populations. The petition was generated in response to the recent issuance of permits by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to private hunters and trappers that would allow them to assist the Department in killing all of the wolves in a 1,700 square mile area of central interior Alaska by shooting them from airplanes in order to reduce predation on moose...
It will be forced into a context of freedom, but it's only about money, the political debate I mean. The Alaskan legislature is being coerced by the suppliers, the businesses that provide the planes and accomodations, the "service" industries.
The motives of the "hunters" are their own bitter reactions to a world that doesn't need them, that doesn't even like them very much. So they force it to its knees, and make it do what they want.
Sadism with disposable income. Lots of disposable income. And little surges of testosterone.
