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FROM WHENCE IT CAME I KNOW NOT.

I refer to the catalogue of videotapes circulated to faculty

this week. Among the listings under the heading ECOLOGY is

the title "Say Goodbye".

Faculty should be cautioned in using this videotape that some
four-hundred thousand dollars litigation was involved following
its release. It does not present the facts as they were. In fact
it represents an excellent example of biased journalism, and
could well be used as such.

This "documentary" was produced under the auspices of "The Friends
of the . Earth Society". The closing scene shows two polar bear
cubs heading out across the ice, leaving their mother presumably
dead, having been shot from a-helicopter by a mighty white hunter.
It is a touching scene. But a deliberate hoax. The producers of
the show wittingly involved a well known Alaskan game guide, an
Anchorage dentist and a biologist with the Alaska State Game
Commission in presenting their hoax. It also involved the theft

of film footage from Kodak's Laboratory in Anchorage. As presented

the film depicted seven Alaska State Game Laws being violated.

Polar bear in Alaska, as in Canada, are hunted under a strict permit
system. It is illegal to use a helicopter or fixed wing aircraft

to locate and persue polar bear, as it is to fire at polar bear from
the air. The mother bear, when I was in Juneau eighteen months after
the film was shot was still alive and as near as any one knew, healthy.
The touching death scene in Say Goodbye was made when she was
anesthetized so that a radio transmitter could be attached to her
neck. State game biologists were studying polar bear migration on

the ice flows. The producers of the show knew this.... having obtaine

film footage shot by the biologist ... presumably to show a national
television audience the role of the State Game Commission in protectin

a vanishing species. As it turned out this was not what was intendec

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