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		<title>African Trophy Hunter Indicted for Lacey Violations</title>
		<link>https://thinkingafield.org/2013/05/african-trophy-hunter-indicted-for-lacey-violations.html</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Wunderlich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 23:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Charles Kokesh was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pensacola, Florida, for violating the Endangered Species Act and the Lacey Act by selling two African elephant tusks and for making false accounts of wildlife related to that sale, the Justice Department announced today. The three count indictment returned yesterday alleges that Kokesh legally imported a sport-hunted African elephant trophy]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Statement on Endangered Species Talks in the House of Representatives</title>
		<link>https://thinkingafield.org/2013/05/statement-on-endangered-species-talks-in-the-house-of-representatives.html</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Wunderlich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[GW:  Can I get an Amen! MISSOULA, Mont. (May 9, 2013)&#8211;As the two oldest sportsmen groups with decades of commitment to fundamental wildlife policies, the Boone and Crockett Club and Wildlife Management Institute welcome the initiative of members of the House who have joined to consider the Endangered Species Act. We encourage Democratic members to do likewise and for the]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Feds to Seek Endangered Species Status for Wolverines</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Wunderlich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Montana&#8217;s top wildlife official has said that his agency will thoroughly review a federal rule expected to be published today (Monday) before responding to the forthcoming proposal to list the wolverine as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. &#8220;We know, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acknowledged, that Montana is a stronghold for wolverines and wolverine habitat,&#8221;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>HSUS Threatens Lawsuit to Overturn Western Great Lakes Wolf Delisting</title>
		<link>https://thinkingafield.org/2012/10/hsus-threatens-lawsuit-to-overturn-western-great-lakes-wolf-delisting.html</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Columubs, OH) – On Monday, October 15th, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and its Fund for Animals filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the removal of the Western Great Lakes region wolves from the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA).  A 60-day notice of intent to sue is a]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Obama Administration&#8217;s Transparency Clear as Mud</title>
		<link>https://thinkingafield.org/2012/10/obama-administrations-transparency-clear-as-mud.html</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By  Glen Wunderlich The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was designed to help the recovery of endangered or threatened animal species.  One of the success stories has landed home – literally – as one of the world’s rarest birds, a lone whooping crane, has been spotted recently in Shiawassee County.  In year 1941 only 23 of these birds were known to]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Racketeering Charges Move Forward Against HSUS</title>
		<link>https://thinkingafield.org/2012/07/racketeering-charges-move-forward-against-hsus.html</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This from HumaneWatch&#8230; We have another update in the decade-plus-long litigation drama involving several animal rights groups, including the Humane Society of the United States, involving their alleged racketeering scheme against Feld Entertainment, owner of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum &#38; Bailey Circus. You may recall that in late 2009, animal rights groups saw their legal offensive against the circus]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Midwest Farmers Ready to Pull Trigger on Wolves</title>
		<link>https://thinkingafield.org/2012/01/midwest-farmers-ready-to-pull-trigger-on-wolves.html</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nancy Warren, an animal activist who lives in the western U.P., said Great Lakes wolves are still vulnerable to disease and starvation. &#8220;If wolves are living in the forests, raising their pups and not causing any problems, I see no reason why they can&#8217;t be left alone,&#8221; Warren said. Farmers would like to end the disease and starvation issues for wolves by]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bats Block Road Construction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A planned multimillion-dollar Interstate 96 interchange in Livingston County, Michigan faces a roadblock:  bats.  The construction project cannot continue during the breeding season of the federally protected critters, that make plentiful dead trees their homes.  More here&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wolf Delisting Decision a Big Win for Sportsmen</title>
		<link>https://thinkingafield.org/2011/12/wolf-delisting-decision-a-big-win-for-sportsmen.html</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Columbus, Ohio) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that gray wolf populations in the Western Great Lakes region have exceeded recovery goals and should no longer be protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).  Once official, this move will return wolves to state management in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and some portions of adjoining states. In an even]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Whackos Aided by White House to Sue over Wolf Delisting in Wyoming</title>
		<link>https://thinkingafield.org/2011/12/whackos-aided-by-white-house-to-sue-over-wolf-delisting-in-wyoming.html</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Somebody&#8221; at the White House made sure  that congressional &#8220;negotiators&#8221; withdrew a rider that would have prevented environmentalists to sue as part of a pending agreement to, once and for all, remove Wyomning wolves from the endangered species list.  It now appears as though the whackos will have veto power, once again. As always, it will be emotion trumping science with the]]></description>
		
		
		
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