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Fall 2014
Defenders Magazine
Volume 89, Issue 3
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Nicholas A. Tonelli / Flickr
Fall 2014
Wild Matters
Oil and Wildlife Refuges Don’t Mix
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Living Lightly
Microbeads, Macro Problem
D-Con Be Gone
EPA bans poison blamed for accidentally killing wildlife
Worth Defending
San Joaquin Kit Fox
Happy at Hatteras
Wildlife protection doesn’t hurt tourism at seashore
Protecting a Fancy Dancer
Study finds plans for protecting sage-grouse ‘inadequate and inconsistent’
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