A check on legislative and executive branch powers are People's Ballot Initiatives. Lower '48 hunters and trappers destroyed half Forty Mile wolves, said Anchorage attorney Kneeland Taylor. Banned by People's Ballot Initiative '96 were aerial and land and shoot wolf hunts. The Legislature is expressing distrust of the People.
Alaskan voters are too uninformed.
Safari Club International and 14 other groups met in Wash DC to plan reversing our recent trend of losses to voters through ballot initiatives. The press providing voters with information to make informed choices isn't necessary, nor are voters' decisions, the Coalition says. Voters shouldn't have to bother being informed and shouldn't rely on the press for information. Extreme animal suffering through slow strangulation and mutilation was filmed during state and private predator control operations by private wildlife biologist Dr. Gordon Haber. AK Fish and Game turned a blind eye to vigilante wolf-kill.