Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, September 26, 1993                   TAG: 9309260126
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ANCHORAGE, ALASKA                                LENGTH: Short

ALASKAN WOLF-KILL PLAN INSPIRES 36-CITY PROTEST

"This is my part to preserve wildlife," said Hovanec, 29, a grocery store worker who held up her sign for passing cars to see outside a hotel owned by Gov. Walter J. Hickel. "The wolves can't talk for themselves."

Giving voice to the message is why Wendy Moe brought her dog Yetta, a part-wolf house pet that howls on command. Protesters also played tape-recorded wolf howls to attract attention.

"I'm here to help save the wolves," said Moe, an Anchorage legal secretary who handed a picket sign to her 3-year-old niece.

Alaska's plan to hunt, snare and trap up to 150 wolves in a 2,000-mile region south of Fairbanks touched off nationwide plans for rallies in 36 cities.

State Game Board-approved wolf control is aimed at improving the numbers of big game available for hunters. A kill could begin as soon as next month.

Protests were held on New York's Fifth Avenue and on the Capitol steps in Washington. Rallies were organized by Connecticut-based Friends of Animals to promote a state tourism boycott. - Associated Press