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2003 Press Releases

December

Bush Administration Seeks To Remove Arizona Pygmy Owl From Endangered Species List 12/12/2003

Rep. Sam Farr's Sea Otter Legislation 12/10/2003

Bush Eliminates Protections For Endangered Species As Part Of Forest Fire Initiative 12/04/2003

Bush Administration “Sabotaging Endangered Species Act," Group Charges 12/03/2003

The Endangered Species Act at 30 12/03/2003

November

Lawmakers Reject Bipartisan Compromise On Environmental Exemptions For Department Of Defense 11/19/2003

Applications for Alaska Aerial Wolf Killing Released 11/18/2003

No Drilling in the Arctic Refuge...For Now 11/04/2003

Alaska Game Board Approves Aerial Killing of Wolves 11/04/2003

Interior Spending Bill Threatens Environment 11/03/2003

October

Alaska Set To Resume Aerial Wolf Killing 10/31/2003

Bush Administration Refuses to List Wolverine as an Endangered Species 10/22/2003

Wolf Awareness Week is October 19 - 26, 2003 10/17/2003

Bush Endangered Species Import Plan Poses "Serious Threat" to More than 500 Species Worldwide 10/17/2003

Defenders Celebrates National Wildlife Refuge Week in Refuge System's 100th Year 10/10/2003

Boy Scout Troop Leader Receives Reward Providing Information Leading to the Arrest and Conviction in Sea Otter Shooting 10/02/2003

Conservation and Animal Groups Move to Keep Wolf Recovery On Track 10/01/2003

September

Tom Delay Lets Truth Slip on Drilling in Arctic Refuge 09/25/2003

What the National Petroleum Council Won't Tell You About A Natural Gas "Crisis" 09/25/2003

Ignoring Public Opposition, Bush Administration, GOP Lawmakers Revive Bid to Drill in Arctic Refuge 09/22/2003

Arctic Drilling Opponents Stand Firm -- Reject Attempts to Link Drilling to Blackouts 09/16/2003

Energy and Water Appropriations Amendment Harmful to Rio Grande River 09/12/2003

Sea Otters Take Center Stage During Sea Otter Awareness Week 09/09/2003

Wildlife Agencies and Environmental Group Team up to Protect Both Sheep and Grizzly Bears 09/02/2003

August

Bush Forest Initiative Masks Policy Attacks on Forestry Law 08/21/2003

Environmentalists Excluded From Hearings as GOP Congressmen Descend on Sea World 08/18/2003

EPA Nominee No Friend of Environment 08/11/2003

Defenders and National Park Service Launch Denali Wolf Education Program 08/04/2003

July

Logging Against the Law Bush Administration's Legal Violations, Court Strategies, Relentless Policy Attacks Undercut Forest Law 07/17/2003

House Vote Sends Strong Message on Forest Management: Statement of Robert Dewey, Vice President for Government Relations, Defenders of Wildlife 07/17/2003

Congressional Moves Push Silvery Minnow Extinction 07/17/2003

A Court Victory for Sea Otters, Common Murres, Harbor Porpoise and Other Marine Mammals 07/17/2003

June

Groups Call for Review of Wind Power Wildlife Impacts 06/24/2003

Safeway Stores to Hand Out "Bear Aware" Bags 06/18/2003

Congressional Panel Renegs on Conservation Promise 06/18/2003

Defenders Condemns Law Allowing Public Aerial Wolf Killing 06/18/2003

Appellate Court Affirms Bureau of Reclamation's Responsibility to Conserve Rio Grande Ecosystem 06/13/2003

Defenders Slams Forest Service Backdoor Rollback on Roadless Areas 06/11/2003

Wildlife Groups Press For More Research Funding Following Spring 2003 California Sea Otter Census Results 06/06/2003

Groups Call for Special Counsel, Information Release on J. Steven Griles 06/02/2003

May

Bush Administration to Launch Attack on Essential Component of Endangered Species Act 05/28/2003

Congress Launches Offensive on Environment Laws 05/21/2003

EPA Administrator Whitman Resigns 05/21/2003

Defenders of Wildlife Takes Action to Reduce Wolf and Grizzly Deaths 05/20/2003

House Panel Unleashes Barrage on Environment Laws 05/19/2003

Fact Sheet: H.R. 1588, Defense Authorization Bill 05/19/2003

Family Announces Memorial Fund for Columbia Astronaut Laurel Clark at Defenders of Wildlife 05/16/2003

Bears Take Center Stage During National Bear Awareness Week, May 18-24 05/12/2003

Congress Widens Scope of Military Assault on Environmental Protections 05/07/2003

Court Records Show Bush Administration Systematically Violating Environmental Laws 05/02/2003

April

Administration Opportunistically Seeks Exemptions for the Department of Defense 04/22/2003

Students Around the Country are Speaking Out Against Weakening "Dolphin-Safe" Tuna Label 04/21/2003

Earth Day Finds Environment Squeezed By Iron Triangle 04/18/2003

Boat Strike Deaths of Sea Otters Spark Concern 04/11/2003

Arctic Advocates Call Vote "Dead End" 04/10/2003

107 Members of Congress, 325 Scientists, 100,000 Citizens 04/07/2003

Circuit Court Upholds Roadless Forest Policy Again 04/07/2003

Groups Applaud Release of Southern Sea Otter Recovery Plan 04/03/2003

Wolf Advocates Offer U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agency a Proposal to Restore Wolves in the Northeast 04/02/2003

Off the Hook on Court Lets Bush Administration Environmental Duties to Mexico: Colorado River Ruling to be Appealed 04/02/2003

Defenders Initiates Steps to Keep Gray Wolf Recovery On Track 04/01/2003

March

Reward Issued for Information Leading to the Arrest in Sea Otter Killing 03/25/2003

Defenders Condemns Bill to Allow Land & Shoot Wolf Killing 03/21/2003

Statement on the Senate Vote Stripping a Measure Allowing Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from the FY '04 Budget Resolution 03/19/2003

"Dolphin-Safe" Tuna Label is Focus of Essay Contest 03/19/2003

Feds Endanger "Crowning Achievement" by Reducing Protection for Gray Wolf, says Defenders of Wildlife 03/18/2003

Statement on Arctic Refuge and the House Budget Resolution 03/13/2003

Group Questions Board of Game McGrath Predator Plan 03/12/2003

Call to Immediately Halt Killing of Yellowstone Buffalo 03/12/2003

Arctic Oil Development Has Major Environmental Impacts, Study Says 03/04/2003

February

McGrath Predator Control Proposal Short on Details and Public Input 02/26/2003

Environmental Groups Say Wind Power Project Violates Endangered Species Law 02/05/2003

Budget Shortchanges Environment Again 02/03/2003

January

Critical New Federal Protection to be Proposed for Endangered Manatees 01/24/2003

Federal Court Finds Interior Secretary Norton in Violation on Lynx 01/02/2003