“..another victory in court against outside interest groups.”
This is absolutely hilarious. There is no bigger supporter of outside interest groups than Murkowski. I mean, he is an interest group. I guess corporate interests don’t fall under his definition.
Animal rights group renews call for
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By Mary Pemberton
The Associated Press
The move comes after the Alaska Supreme Court on Friday denied a request by Friends of Animals to halt the program. The judges also refused to review the case. The court did not provide an explanation.
"As far as a tourism boycott which I had called off, it will be organized again," Priscilla Feral, president of the Darien, Conn.-based group, said today. "As much as we are floored to get the news, we are determined to go ahead and keep working."
Over the past two years, Friends of Animals helped stage hundreds of demonstrations called howl-ins in cities across the country to protest
Friends of Animals, joined by seven
The game board went into emergency session to redraft the regulations and quickly reinstated the program, reissuing more than 100 permits to pilot and gunner teams, saying it was critical the program move forward while conditions are favorable for tracking and killing wolves. Gleason ruled the subsequent effort conformed with regulations and state law.
Gov. Frank Murkowski said the Supreme Court ruling was a victory for Alaskans.
"Alaskans, who rely upon moose and caribou to feed their families, have scored yet another victory in court against outside interest groups," Murkowski said in a statement.
Friends of Animals began holding howl-ins in November 2003, soon after the program was initiated in the Interior town of
The Friends of Animals campaign was successful in the 1990s in persuading then-Gov. Wally Hickel to cancel a similar program, Feral said. It has not had that success with Murkowski. Between November 2003 and April 2005, Friends of Animals held more than 230 howl-ins.
"When Murkowski sailed into office, everything went to hell," Feral said.
However, the latest Supreme Court ruling has people re-energized, she said. Friends of Animals has already heard from sympathizers in
Friends of Animals also hopes to make lethal wolf control a gubernatorial campaign issue in the November election, Feral said. Murkowski, a first-term Republican, has not yet said whether he will run for re-election.
The group also plans to protest at the game board's next meeting in
State biologists estimate that
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