The wording (from the Alaska voters pamphlet):
This bill amends current law banning same-day airborne shooting to include grizzly bears. The bill permits the Board of Game to allow a predator program for wolves and grizzly bears if the Commissioner of Fish and Game finds an emergency, where wolves or grizzly bears in an area are causing a decline in prey. Only employees of the Department of Fish and Game could take part in the program. Only the minimum number of wolves or grizzly bears needed to stop the emergency could be removed.
Janeen’s summary taken from the full text of the measure:
This measure states that a person can’t shoot a wolf, wolverine, or grizzly bear during the same day that they have been airborne (not counting regularly scheduled commercial flights), unless the Commissioner of Fish and Game says there’s a biological emergency. According to the measure, a biological emergency means “a condition where a wolf or grizzly bear population in a specific geographic area is depleting a prey population to a point that if not corrected will cause an irreversible decline in the prey population such that it is not likely to recover without implementing wolf or grizzly bear control.”
If you’re in favor of limiting airborne predator control to times when the Commissioner of Fish and Game claims a biological emergency (and feel that the current program does not adequately monitor and restrict airborne hunting), you’ll want to vote YES on this measure. If you want to leave the airborne predator control program as is, and believe the current program wisely monitors airborne hunting, you’ll want to vote NO.
The question I still have with regards to this measure is, “What is the current regulation regarding airborne hunting?” I haven’t found a good answer to this query.
The Maxwell House 
August 22, 2008 at 7:20 pm
I’m currently on vacay, but when I get back… lets rodeo. Also, I hear that it is a virtual impossibility to get an “emergency” declared in the case of this measure.
August 23, 2008 at 9:26 pm
How do we know WHAT to believe anymore??? ESPECIALLY on ballot measure 4. I hate politics.
August 24, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Yes indeed, all I ever hear about is this Ballot measure 4 business… pebbles, no pebbles, i don’t know whats going on…
August 24, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Oooh, yes Sal. I loved your last Obama VP post. I got the same feeling (about the impossibility of declaring an emergency) when I did research for this post. Reading straight from the measure as presented only gives us the language “to a point that if not corrected will cause an irreversible decline in the prey population” (when referring to when an emergency would be declared regarding a predator/prey population). That would be a hard point to prove.
Lee, I agree. For this state election (with regards to the ballot measures) I’ve been trying to listen to the media less and reading the actual measure more. I know there’s a lot more too it than just that, but I don’t trust a single source to give me factual information. Sad.
Mel. Only 12 days in Alaska and already you’ve been inundated with measure 4 propoganda. All the rest of us have been suffering through it for months! I plan to get to measure four on Monday.