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[FoA] Board of Game ponders wolf trapping in Denali buffer zone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Board of Game ponders wolf trapping in Denali buffer zone

 

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

 

 

02.28.10

 

 

 

 

FAIRBANKS — Priscilla Feral

spent a full day flying to Fairbanks from Connecticut to speak before

the Alaska Board of Game for five minutes on Saturday, even though she

doesn’t think it will do any good.

 

It was the least she could do for Gordon Haber.

 

Feral, president of Friends of Animals, one of the country’s most

prolific animal-rights groups and based in Connecticut, showed up

Saturday to testify in support of expanding a 122-square-mile buffer

zone. The zone sits on state land in the northeast corner of Denali

National Park and Preserve, and trapping wolves is prohibited in the

buffer zone.

 

It was Haber, a well-known biologist who studied Denali wolves for more

than 40 years with funding from Feral’s group, who originally proposed

the buffer zone that the Board of Game adopted in 2000. The board

reduced it to its current size in 2004. Haber died in a plane crash

while tracking wolves in Denali in October.

 

“Gordon’s gone, and I don’t know how to fill his footsteps, but I can

start by showing up,†Feral said following her testimony.

 

“What I’m doing is framing what he taught me over 17 years of his work

and trying to give it some hope. We want to organize a movement here to

keep some decent protection areas for wolves around the Denali area,â€

she said.

 

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