It continues to astonish me that a state that contains most of the remaining wild places in the United States has no respect at all for those places except to make a buck off them.  We have Senators and a Representative who owe their offices to outside big oil money who can't wait to strip mine, clear cut and drill every inch of the state for short term profit.  We have so-called hunters who bait bears and shoot wolves from helicopters which is not hunting....it's just killing.  People come to Alaska in ever larger numbers to see what pristine wild places look like because there are so few left and too many Alaskans consider the state just one large resource that they can devour as fast as possible.  What will future Alaskans say about our stewardship of this Great Land?