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  • Sage Grouse Must Wait (High Country News)
    (March 9, 2010) Ever spent hours waiting for assistance in a doctors office while other, more urgent patients were seen first? Then you can imagine how some of us feel about Fridays decision to leave the sage grouse hanging about in the waiting room.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/defendersofwildlife-inthenews/~4/93PwhhpA6gE" height="1" width="1"/>

  • Creating a Solar Industry That Benefits the Economy, Climate, and Wildlife (Audubon Magazine)
    (March 9, 2010) We want to make sure that important desert wildlife habitat doesnt become a solar sacrifice zone, said Kim Delfino, Defenders of Wildlifes California program director, in the group's magazine. Renewable energy can be part of Californias clean-energy future, but it has to be done right and in the areas that cause the least environmental harm.

  • Park Service suggests limits on Hatteras beach use (Daily Comet)
    (March 5, 2010) "We will be examining the alternatives closely and will urge the park service to choose a management plan that protects the wildlife resources of Cape Hatteras for generations to come," said Jason Rylander, staff attorney for Defenders of Wildlife.

  • Sage grouse needs protection but not from Endangered Species Act (Salt Lake Tribune)
    (March 5, 2010) "Unfortunately, the administration has proposed a cut in funding for listing endangered species," said Bob Irvin ,of Defenders of Wildlife, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit organization.

  • Look at reality of beluga habitat designation (Anchorage Daily News)
    (March 2, 2010) This week marks the end of the official comment period for the beluga critical habitat designation. And over the past few weeks and months we've all heard some pretty scary assertions about what this decision will mean for Alaska. It is only understandable that emotions fray and charged comments fly when people feel their lives may be impacted by the simple stroke of a pen in a far away city.

  • Hearing takes up lizard protections (The Desert Sun)
    (March 2, 2010) Development has continued to impact the lizard's habitat since the original 1993 proposed rule to protect it, said Mike Senatore, vice president for conservation law at Defenders of Wildlife, one of the environmental groups whose lawsuit led to the court order forcing reconsideration of lizard protections.