I went to Alaska for about three weeks and saw some wolves. They were pretty big too, bigger than other wolves I've seen.

Yeah. It was awesome.

Alaska huh? Sounds fun; I'd like to go there sometime; shame that they are still hunted there Maybe one day I can go to Alaska, got a lot of places that I'd like to go to so Alaska is on my list and it'd be great to see some wild wolves there.

Yeah i'd like to visit too. I wanted to live there once but then found out you can't have anything exotic. Their laws are even worse than CA and CA wont even let you have gerbils.

You can have just about any herp in AK though just cuz they know they wont survive long if they escape.

I'm not really opposed to hunting long as it's done in a sensably controled manner and the population can handle it but AK wolf "hunts" are insane shooting them from the air like that cuz they eat to much carabo and compeat with carbo hunting people do, well the wolves were there first.

Wolves in Alaska are mostly hunted for sport and there is no 'controlled manner' way to hunt them. Wolves are endangered just about everywhere so it always effect their population.

Yeah, and it is sad that they do that too, butif you want to help you can sign Silverfox's petition for the wolves.

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that's a link to a page on the forum that has details about it.

nice thought but they wont pay attention to anything but real paper signature petitions. The E-petitions aren't much more than polls. It might get glanced at by a secratary or helper of some kind if your lucky.

Or better yet write a letter or make a call. You can do either and they do keep track of those.

for the petition i am going to send it, with a personal letter to the president. I know it may not work, if it doesn't i will just have to try some other way of helping the wolves

Three cheers for giving it a try, Silverfox - are you in touch with any conservation groups up there? If you want to get involved, the best thing is to find locals who are already involved. The

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might be able to provide some advice. I've never had any dealings with them, though. Hey, they even have a

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Remember it takes an average of 11 years, so they say, for a conservation campaign to reach its resolution...e-petitions are mainly useful for drawing attention, though. I got a 10,000 signature pen-and-ink petition over another wolf issue and that was officially noted. Believe me though it was no piece of cake organising that.

Failia, which part of Alaska did you see the wolves, if you don't mind me asking? And what colour were they?

Well, I was in Southeast Alaska in the Denali Nat. Park region.

The wolves were mostly grays and browns. Pretty colors. ^^

I am really involved with organizations here in California, the founder of friends of the island fox, is of course involves with the foxes but also very involved with wolves. She loves helping them and sends me different things that i can do to help them.

That's cool. ^^

I live in MI

I can't beleive I missed this thread; but you're lucky to be able to see wild Alaskan wolves. I bet they are big; all wolves are bigger than most would think.

Most people probably just think that wolves are the size of dogs, but they're bigger than Great Danes. And Great Danes are huge dogs.