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In addition to our award-winning quarterly, Defenders magazine, Defenders of Wildlife produces a wide range of reports, brochures and other materials about wildlife and conservation.
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Defenders Board of Game Statewide Comments, January 2012 
12/28/2011
| Author(s):
Theresa Fiorino
Description: Defenders comments for the January, 2012 Board of Game meeting in Anchorage, Alaska.
Proposed critical habitat designation
11/29/2011
| Author(s):
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Flexibility: Revised Solar Plan Makes Room
11/16/2011
| Author(s):
TWS,
NRDC,
Defenders of Wildlife
Description: The revised solar plan allows sufficient flexibility to meet the public land’s share of regional clean energy needs and support development of a strong American solar industry.
Transmission: Revised Solar Plan Makes the Connection
11/16/2011
| Author(s):
TWS,
NRDC,
Defenders of Wildlife
Description: The Interior Department’s revised solar energy plan for public lands will ensure existing transmission capacity can be accessed and needed new transmission will be developed in a timely manner.
Lessons Learned: The Case Against a Scattershot Approach to Siting Solar
11/16/2011
| Author(s):
TWS,
NRDC,
Defenders of Wildlife
Description: Last year, the Secretary of the Interior approved the first ever utility-scale solar power plants on public lands in the West. Despite increasing success in the utility-scale solar industry, federal land managers continue to evaluate the many pending applications in a reactive manner: solar companies submit applications to construct power plants and federal land managers react to those applications. This reactive process is incapable of providing the certainty necessary to build a successful solar industry.
Summary of the Supplement to Draft PEIS: Revised Solar Plan Headed in Right Direction
11/16/2011
| Author(s):
TWS,
NRDC,
Defenders of Wildlife
Description: The Interior Department’s revised solar plan for solar energy development on public lands proposes a three-part approach to balancing the need for clean energy with protection of sensitive resources. And it does so without changing the rules of the game for companies with pending applications. This revised plan was developed in response to extensive public comment, including joint recommendations offered by developers, major utilities, and conservation groups.
Assessing species and area vulnerabilitAssessing Species and Area Vulnerability to Climate Change for the Oregon Conservation Strategy: Willamette Valley Ecoregiony to climate change for the Oregon Conservation Strategy: Willamette Valley Ecoregion
11/01/2011
| Author(s):
Zachary L. Steel,
Marit Wilkerson,
Patrick Grof-Tisza,
Kathryn Sulzner
Description: Defenders worked with graduate students at the University of California at Davis to conduct a vulnerability assessment on 46 species within the Willamette Valley Ecoregion of Oregon. This report also provides an initial guideline for future place-based climate change vulnerability analyses.
Wildlife and the Economy Ads
10/31/2011
| Author(s):
Defenders of Wildlife
Description: Defenders of Wildlife and other conservation groups are running ads in key Capitol Hill media outlets the week of October 31 - November 4, 2011 to oppose proposed spending cuts in Congress that will harm wildlife and wildlife-related jobs.
