Known anti-wolf activist and current Idaho governor, C. L. Otter sent the following “opinion” to all media outlets.

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.

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.

The Defenders of Wildlife is highlighting the USDA’s Wildlife Services’ plans to wipe out hundreds of wolves in the upper Rocky Mountains. The Endangered Species Act ruling doesn’t protect wolves from the organization originally responsible for exterminating all the wolves in the region in the 1940s.

A pack of eight wolves has been wiped out already, and Defenders, along with other organizations, are working together to fight this legislatively and legally.

Defenders of Wildlife is mobilizing against the harsh anti-wolf legislation currently making its way through Utah’s state senate.

Defenders of Wildlife has started a new campaign targeting those who supported the Idaho predator derbies, in which each wolf killed earned the hunting team three points towards winning prizes.

After a year which was marked by a number of steps backwards for America’s wolves, wolf advocates are preparing for another year of fights – and do so by asking for last minute donations.

Eva Sargent, of the Defenders of Wildlife, wrote an editorial piece for the Arizona start about the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction.

Idaho Fish and Game commissioners have extended the deadlines in all wolf hunting zones which haven’t hit their quotas well in to 2010.