Walnut Hill Tracking & Nature Center

April 1, 2010

Discovery Communications -- the parent company of The Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC and others, and known for their wildlife-focused programs -- is planning to produce an 8-part TV show on Sarah Palin’s Alaska.

Discovery says it regards Palin as being “one of [Alaska’s] proudest daughters.”

Palin was and is an unabashed advocate of Alaska’s brutal and bloody aerial wolf-slaughter program.

According to reports, she’ll earn about $1 million per episode from the nature-focused series.

Act now: Send a powerful message to Discovery Communications expressing your outrage at their action and urging them to drop Sarah Palin’s new show from their programming schedule.

Sarah Palin’s Alaska is a “reality TV” show that aims to showcase the “powerful beauty of Alaska,” according to Discovery’s TLC website.

But the real Sarah Palin’s Alaska is an ugly reality. As governor for only two-and-a-half years, Sarah Palin escalated a bloody aerial wolf-slaughter campaign that continues to this very day. She even planned to offer a $150 bounty for the severed forelimb of each killed wolf.

Palin also fought against increased protections for endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales and America’s dwindling populations of polar bears.

It seems ironic that Sarah Palin will now earn millions hosting a nature show after spending years fighting against Alaska's natural heritage!

Send a message to Discovery Communications -- and let them know that Sarah Palin doesn’t deserve to represent the “powerful beauty of Alaska” in front of millions of people.

It’s surprising that Discovery Communications, parent company of such cable television channels as Animal Planet, The Discovery Channel and TLC -- and known for their stunning wildlife-focused shows -- would chose to embrace such a controversial and anti-wildlife persona as Sarah Palin.

Please join in calling on Discovery Communications to drop Sarah Palin’s new show.

Please go to www.defenders.org and help now.

March 29, 2010

Cabela's, known as the world's largest outfitter, has been sponsoring "predator derbies" in the West. The aim of these derbies is to kill as many wolves and other animals as fast as possible in two days. The derbies are run by an Idaho group that uses fees from these killing events to pay anti-wolf lawyers and lobbyists to fight federal protection efforts for wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies.

What you can do:

1. Boycott Cabelas and let them know you are doing so until they stop funding these horrific slaughters. Write them, call them, e-mail them.

2. Contact the White House. Let President Obama know that you do not approve of Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar's decision to remove federal protection for Gray Wolves.

3. Join Defenders of Wildlife @ www.defenders.org

Massachusett's DCR (Department of Conservation (sic) and Recreation) is engaged in greatly increased logging of the Quabbin watershed, now that the forest has matured to the age of 70+ years and the timber is marketable. In addition,a new market has opened up for ecologically devastating "biomass" (sic) facilities that burn wood to produce electricity. The Quabbin forestry operation needs vocal and vigilent citizens to serve as watchdogs. The cutting is purely for economic reasons, despite the claims of the Quabbin forestry propaganda machine, economics that benefit a small network of select few individuals. Many of the contracts are awarded to out of state firms, and much of the timber is shipped out of state and to Canada.
What you can do:
1. Contact Governor Patrick. Whether you are a resident of Massachusetts, or an occasional visitor, let him know the importance of preserving the natural environment. Write, call, e-mail.
2. Contact the Massachusetts DCR.
3. Contact the DCR Forestry Division at their headquarters in Belchertown.
See http://www.maforests.org/QUABBIN.pdf for more on what you can do.	The clearcutting has become even more disturbing, as they are now removing all slash as well in places, leaving completely barren landscapes with no nutrients returning to the earth, which, as any reputable ecologist knows, spells disaster for forest health.

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