A rare and dramatically declining gray wolf subspecies in Alaska will face critical threats from hunting this year unless we act immediately.
The population of Archipelago wolves found on Prince of Wales Island, a remote island in southeast Alaska, has plummeted in recent years due to unsustainable old-growth logging and hunting. Despite this population crash, the federal government plans to allow subsistence hunting – a decision that may push the population to the edge of extinction.
The subsistence hunting season for Archipelago wolves on Prince of Wales Island will open on September 1st unless the Federal Subsistence Board cancels the hunt.
On Prince of Wales Island, roads built for old-growth logging are making it easier for hunters, trappers, and poachers to kill Archipelago wolves at an unsustainable rate. The Prince of Wales Island wolf population is now very low, perhaps only a few tens of wolves – down from an estimated 250 to 350 in the mid-1990s.
The start of hunting is just a few days away and could serve as a fatal blow to these embattled wolves.
Demand that the hunting of these rare wolves be stopped!
Exposing the Big Game 
“Subsistence” hunting of wolves? How broadly are they interpreting subsistence hunting now? Human rationalization knows no bounds. Gotta get all that deer and elk and moose for ourselves! God, we suck.
AK hunting and fishing motto: “Kill the Competition”.
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