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	<title>HOWL Colorado &#187; defenders of wildlife</title>
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		<title>Defenders: Our Forests, Our Wolves</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/09/09/defenders-our-forests-our-wolves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ﻠ  Wyoming&#8217;s wolf &#8220;management&#8221; plan includes shoot-on-sight provisions for much of the state, however, some of that is national forest, which belongs to all Americans &#8211; and that includes the wolves those forests contain.
Defenders of Wildlife is offering an easy way to send your opinions to the President, and his administration, telling them that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie screening of Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a land ethic for our time</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/09/08/movie-screening-of-green-fire-aldo-leopold-and-a-land-ethic-for-our-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ﻠ“There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.”  -Aldo Leopold

Defenders of Wildlife and Louisville Open Space are hosting a screening of the film &#8220;Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a land ethic for our time&#8221;  on Thursday, September 15th from 6 p.m. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Year starts with positive news for Mexican gray wolves</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/02/08/year-starts-with-positive-news-for-mexican-gray-wolves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Population numbers for the extremely fragile Mexican gray wolves are finally headed the right direction, but the recovery is tempered by caution as the numbers still remain critically low.

Defenders of Wildlife Press Release
TUCSON, Ariz. &#8211; The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico has grown for the first time in four years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defenders backs Michael Bennet in CO Senate race</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/10/21/defenders-backs-michael-bennet-in-co-senate-race/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/10/21/defenders-backs-michael-bennet-in-co-senate-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, the political arm of the non-profit organization, endorses political candidates in each election cycle based on their record as it relates to ecological and wildlife conservation issues. The action fund has weighed in on Colorado&#8217;s most visible nationally relevant race.
 
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund has endorsed Michael Bennet because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov. &#8220;Butch&#8221; attacks Defenders&#8217; reimbursement program changes</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/09/01/gov-butch-attacks-defenders-reimbursement-program-changes/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/09/01/gov-butch-attacks-defenders-reimbursement-program-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Known anti-wolf activist and current Idaho governor, C. L. Otter sent the following &#8220;opinion&#8221; to all media outlets.

DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE BREAK ANOTHER PROMISE IT NEVER MEANT TO KEEP
By Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter
In Idaho a promise is a promise. We have lived up to our promise of responsible stewardship of wolves under our approved state management [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compensation plan changes leads to troubles for Defenders</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/09/01/compensation-plan-changes-leads-to-troubles-for-defenders/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/09/01/compensation-plan-changes-leads-to-troubles-for-defenders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defenders of Wildlife plans to change their compensation plan due to increased federal funds for reimbursements has led to a heated back and forth.

A change in timing has led to a war of words. The group Defenders of Wildlife is ending its livestock and rancher compensation program after 23 years, as federal money becomes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defenders stops paying reimbursement; focuses on working with ranchers</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/08/27/defenders-stops-paying-reimbursement-focuses-on-working-with-ranchers/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/08/27/defenders-stops-paying-reimbursement-focuses-on-working-with-ranchers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defenders of Wildlife is stopping its Wolf Compensation fund in September and has plans to instead focus on working with ranchers to improve chances for co-existance with wolves.

Defenders of Wildlife announced August 20, 2010 that, with the implementation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and states of new federal legislation providing federal funds for state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defenders: Brutal plan for Northern Rockies wolves</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/08/25/defenders-brutal-plan-for-northern-rockies-wolves/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/08/25/defenders-brutal-plan-for-northern-rockies-wolves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defenders of Wildlife is highlighting the USDA&#8217;s Wildlife Services&#8217; plans to wipe out hundreds of wolves in the upper Rocky Mountains. The Endangered Species Act ruling doesn&#8217;t protect wolves from the organization originally responsible for exterminating all the wolves in the region in the 1940s.

The court decision to restore Endangered Species Act protections for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska Supreme Court upholds state&#8217;s predator program</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/08/10/alaska-supreme-court-upholds-states-predator-program/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/08/10/alaska-supreme-court-upholds-states-predator-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Eye On: ALASKA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alaska Supreme Court has upheld the state&#8217;s predator control programs, ruling they mesh with the state constitution&#8217;s mandate to manage wildlife for sustained yield.

Defenders of Wildlife and the Alaska Wildlife Alliance sued the state four years ago. They said the control of wolves and bears violates the constitution.
The court ruled on Friday that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third Mexican gray wolf killed by poachers in as many weeks</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/07/19/third-mexican-gray-wolf-killed-by-poachers-in-as-many-weeks/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/07/19/third-mexican-gray-wolf-killed-by-poachers-in-as-many-weeks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The critically endangered mexican gray wolves are facing a persistent and seemingly coordinated assault by poachers. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has confirmed that a third Mexican gray wolf has been killed.

There is now only 42 wild Mexican gray wolves known to exist in the wild, making it the most endangered wolf species in [...]]]></description>
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