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2004 Press Releases

December

New Record: Defenders of Wildlife Pays Ranchers More than $100,000 for Wolf-related Livestock Losses in 200412/28/2004

New Bush Administration Regulations Undermine Decades of sound Forest Management12/22/2004

Ten Years of Wolves in Yellowstone & Idaho12/14/2004

November

4 Wolves Dead; Alaska Fish and Game Issues Aerial Wolf Gunning Permits11/29/2004

Ten Years of Wolves in Yellowstone & Idaho11/15/2004

Arctic Refuge Once Again Threatened By Bush Administration Drilling Plans11/11/2004

Arctic Refuge Defenders Battle-Tested and Ready to Fight11/11/2004

Statement of Defenders of Wildlife President Rodger Schlickeisen on the Re-Election of President Bush11/02/2004

October

Defenders of Wildlife Opposes Board of Game Plan to Double the Size of Aerial Wolf Killing Program10/28/2004

Defenders of Wildlife Lawsuit Challenges the Bush Administration's Decision to Drop Wildlife Protection in National Forests10/26/2004

Defenders of Wildlife Highlights Plight of North American Gray Wolves During Wolf Awareness Week, October 17th Through 23rd10/18/2004

Canadian Park Needs Grizzly Conservation Plan10/12/2004

Nation's Most Endangered Refuges of 2004 Announced by Defenders of Wildlife10/08/2004

At CITES, A Victory for Orangutans and Endangered Forests10/07/2004

September

Defenders of Wildlife Joins Forces with Local Groups During Sea Otter Awareness Week09/23/2004

Media Advisory: Nation's Ten Most Endangered Wildlife Refuges to be Announced Friday, October 8th09/21/2004

Leading Conservation and Human Rights Groups Oppose U.S. Border Patrol's Push for Unlimited Access to Protected Public Lands09/16/2004

Defenders Report, Second Nature, Wins Award From National Conservation Group09/09/2004

August

Defenders Pays $3,200 for Grizzly Bear Depredations08/19/2004

Scientists Express Concern About Bush Administration's Environmental Policies in the State of California08/18/2004

Federal Court Overturns Bush Administration Policy Weakening the "Dolphin Safe" Label on Tuna Cans08/10/2004

Defenders Petitions Interior Department to Stop Aerial Assault on Alaska Wolves08/03/2004

Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund Names Ira New Breast Conservation Hero08/02/2004

July

Defenders of Wildlife Builds Electric Fences to Reduce Grizzly Bear Deaths07/29/2004

New Regulations Weaken Endangered Species Act, Threaten Wildlife07/29/2004

House Committee Guts Endangered Species Act Protections: Strips Habitat Protections and Dismisses Data by Scientists07/20/2004

Seeley Schools Get "Bear-Proofed"07/20/2004

Bush to Propose Removing Protections for Wolves in the Entire Eastern U.S.07/16/2004

New Bill Funds Protection for Lions, Cheetahs, Wild Dogs and Other Endangered Foreign Cat and Dog Species07/15/2004

President Bush Proposes Rule Opening Millions of Acres of Protected Forest to Logging07/12/2004

June

Group Encouraged by Sea Otter Increase06/16/2004

Don't Believe the Hype - More Oil Drilling Won't Lower Gas Prices06/15/2004

Amendment to Block Bush Administration06/15/2004

Bear Cubs' Killer Gets Off Easy06/10/2004

April

Testimony of Jamie Rappaport Clark on Endangered Species and Critical Habitat, Before the U.S. House Committee on Resources04/28/2004

New Energy Proposals Target Montana's Rocky Mountain Front04/19/2004

Gale Norton Gives Green Light to Alaska Wolf Slaughter04/08/2004

Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge Won't Lower Gas Prices04/01/2004

March

USDA Stonewalling Effort to Shed Light on Bush Rewrite of Nation's Forest Rules03/31/2004

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Fifteen Years Later03/24/2004

Groups Seek Trade Sanctions Against Malaysia for Orangutan-Deadly Logging03/19/2004

New Bush Regulations Use Forest Fire Threat to Undermine Endangered Species Act03/11/2004

Scientists Call on Bush Administration to Reverse Policy Expanding Imports of Endangered Species03/08/2004

Senate Budget Rebuffs White House on Arctic03/03/2004

February

New Hyundai Test Track Threatens Desert Lands and Endangered Wildlife02/27/2004

World-Famous Alaska Denali Wolf Packs Threatened02/26/2004

Radical New Wolf, Bear Control Programs Up Before Game Board02/24/2004

Defenders of Wildlife Petitions Interior Department to Halt Alaska Aerial Wolf Kills02/09/2004

Defenders Pays $17,219 in Grizzly Bear Compensation During 200302/05/2004

Jamie Rappaport Clark Joins Defenders of Wildlife as New Executive VP 02/04/2004

White House Budget Takes Aim at Arctic Refuge and Undercuts Environmental Protection02/02/2004

January

First Wolves Die In Alaska Aerial Gunning01/30/2004

New Bush Regulations Weaken Pesticide Regulations, Threaten Wildlife01/28/2004

Feds Reject Wyoming Wolf Management Scheme01/13/2004