Her deadly wolf program

Salon by Mark Benjamin | Sep. 8, 2008 (Special Report)

With a disdain for science that alarms wildlife experts, Sarah Palin continues to promote Alaska's policy to gun down wolves from planes.

Palin didn't think Alaskans should be allowed to chase wolves from aircraft and shoot them -- they should be encouraged to do so. Palin's administration put a bounty on wolves' heads, or to be more precise, on their mitts.

In early 2007, Palin's administration approved an initiative to pay a $150 bounty to hunters who killed a wolf from an airplane in certain areas, hacked off the left foreleg, and brought in the appendage. Full Story »

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by Andrew B - Oct. 1, 2008

This article gives more insight into the developing image the public has of Sarah Palin; that of a calculating and ethically challenged politician who has few scruples other than her own opinions. While predator control is in many cases necessary to preserve species and habitats, anyone who has passed high school environmental science knows that tampering with the balance between predators and prey is asking for a disaster. This article provides great information relating to yet another facet of Palin's style and history of governance and how that is often based on her personal whims rather than ethics or science.