Alaska voters shoot down predator control initiative
ANCHORAGE -- A ballot initiative that would end the state's predator control program as now conducted was failing at the polls Tuesday.
With 70 percent of the votes counted, the measure was lagging with more than 55 percent of voters saying no.
Ballot Measure 2 would prohibit the shooting of wolves and bears either from the air or once a plane has landed, unless the commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game finds that a "biological emergency" exists and has adequate scientific proof.
The measure defines a biological emergency as one in which a prey population will irreversibly decline unless aircraft are used to reduce the number of wolves and bears.
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