Spoke with some people who know a bit about the situation up there. Turns out that hunting is big business up in Alaska. Companies are losing money because wolves are doing their jobs and thinning herds, so greedy asshats who want to exploit 'hunters' started to complain.

Cue their white knight, Sarah Palin, to take out the big bad wolves. The companies get to keep their fat profits, some sadistic would-be badasses get to take potshots at defenseless animals from helicopters, and Palin gets to indulge her lust for blood. Don't try to pretend this is about conservation. If Sarah Palin gave a rat's ass about conservation, she wouldn't have sued the government to have the polar bear taken off the endangered species list. That puts her to the right of Bush on the environment, and this is a bad place to be.

Sarah Palin is wrong for the environment, and wrong for America.