Alaska is trying to kill wolves from helicopters.

Ken Salazar's Department of the Interior, which is charged with managing the refuge for the preservation of wildlife, is actually considering allowing this massacre to go forward.

Alaska and Interior's rationale for the wolf killing is that Unimak Island's caribou herd is declining -- but there's little evidence that wolves are to blame.
The Unimak caribou herd's population numbers have fluctuated greatly over the years, and there is no evidence to show that wolves are to blame for the current decline. There is also no evidence to show that killing wolves will increase the island's caribou numbers.

Aerial killing is as inhumane as it is unnecessary. Wolves are gunned down from the sky or chased to exhaustion. In some cases, wounded wolves escape, only to experience a slow, painful death. And because the state's plan is to kill wolves during the pup-rearing season, pups may be orphaned and left to die when their mothers are killed.