Save the Wolves, Boycott Alaska

This poster kicks off the Wolf Action Group's (WAG's) tourist boycott of Alaska. We hope you'll support wolves by bringing pressure on Alaska. Briefly, despite alarming declines in wolf populations, the Alaska Board of Game recently expanded the legal hunting of wolves from the air. The board is also seriously considering government-sponsored wolf eradication programs after a hiatus of several years. These moves come at the behest of two main groups: sport hunters of wolves on the one hand, and on the other, guide-outfitters, trappers, and big game hunters who fear competition from wolves.

With hunting, tourism is big business in Alaska, and withholding it can be a powerful economic goad to curtail these anti-wolf policies. A tourist boycott was a major facet in WAG's successful campaign to halt wolf slaughter by the government of British Columbia.

The posters can be influential when affixed at or near travel agencies and the offices of airlines serving Alaska. Camping and outdoor equipment spots are good targets. They could also be displayed where people likely to write letters of protest and boycott congregate. Letters announcing intent to boycott are essential to this campaign and will compel Alaskan officials to evaluate what's at stake.

Please help the wolves by participating in this effort. Contact WAG for more posters and more information.

Steve Leash, Wolf Action Group, P.O. Box 9286, Missoula, MT 59807

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