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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>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>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>
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		<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>Alaskan aerial gunners wipe out wolf pack; Defenders mobilizes</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/03/19/alaskan-aerial-gunners-wipe-out-wolf-pack-defenders-mobilizes/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/03/19/alaskan-aerial-gunners-wipe-out-wolf-pack-defenders-mobilizes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.

While the following announcement from Defenders is primarily a fund-raising message, the information contained is important and is only the beginning.
The poor wolves don’t stand a chance.
First spotters from airplanes circle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defenders of Wildlife: Hysterical anti-wolf hatred hits new high in Utah</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/02/02/defenders-of-wildlife-hysterical-anti-wolf-hatred-hits-new-high-in-utah/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/02/02/defenders-of-wildlife-hysterical-anti-wolf-hatred-hits-new-high-in-utah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defenders of Wildlife is mobilizing against the harsh anti-wolf legislation currently making its way through Utah&#8217;s state senate.

Spurred on by the so-called “Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife,” anti-wolf legislators are expected to pass a bill as early as this week that would allow state officials to remove any wolves that migrate back to their historic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defenders of Wildlife: Corporations sponsor wolf-killing &#8220;derbies&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/01/29/defenders-of-wildlife-corporations-sponsor-wolf-killing-derbies/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/01/29/defenders-of-wildlife-corporations-sponsor-wolf-killing-derbies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.

How much is a wolf’s life worth?
Three points &#8212; according to Idaho’s misleadingly named Sportsmen for Wildlife, who recently held three “predator derbies,” competitions where contestants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another expensive year lies ahead for America&#8217;s wolf advocates</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2009/12/28/another-expensive-year-lies-ahead-for-americas-wolf-advocates/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2009/12/28/another-expensive-year-lies-ahead-for-americas-wolf-advocates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a year which was marked by a number of steps backwards for America&#8217;s wolves, wolf advocates are preparing for another year of fights &#8211; and do so by asking for last minute donations.

It has been a tough year, financially, for many Americans. It has been a very tough year for wolves, with many backward steps being [...]]]></description>
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