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	<description>The blog of the Cougar Rewilding Foundation</description>
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		<title>ALERT!  Hearing on proposed unlimited cougar hunt quota in the Wyoming Black Hills on May 24th.  Comments due by June 12th</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Action Alert]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wyoming Game and Fish Department (Department) is proposing an unlimited cougar hunt area in a portion of the Black Hills. (See Map 1, a relief map,  at the end of our online blog ALERT.)  They have already declared the Black Hills a “sink,” meaning that mortalities caused by legal hunting are to exceed additions to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sportsmen&#8217;s Heritage Act</title>
		<link>http://easterncougar.org/CougarNews/?p=5571</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HR 4089, the Sportsmen&#8217;s Heritage Act,  passed the US House of Representatives on April 17th and has been sent to the Senate.  This bill is a compilation of four other bills&#8211;HR 991, HR 1558, HR 2834 and HR 3440.  If passed by the Senate and signed by the President, the bill could have significant adverse impacts on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wyoming Game &amp; Fish proposes unlimited cougar hunting in part of the Black Hills</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We urge cougar advocates to attend one of the upcoming public meetings.  The one scheduled in Sundance on May 24th is particularly important.   If you don&#8217;t live in Wyoming, urge a Wyoming friend to go.  Ask them to stand up and make a brief statement.  We hope that the meeting room will be packed with more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many new items in the ProPanther website</title>
		<link>http://easterncougar.org/CougarNews/?p=5557</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many new items in the Pro Panther website &#160; This site is dedicated to the Florida panther.  Visit it for the first time, or visit it again.]]></description>
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		<title>Rescued panther kitten moved to Tampa zoo</title>
		<link>http://easterncougar.org/CougarNews/?p=5554</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Panther]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida panther kitten hit by vehicle needs more rehab By ERIC STAATS http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2012/may/09/florida-panther-kitten-recovers-after-being-hit/ A Florida panther kitten hit by a vehicle and rescued from the side of the road has left a Naples veterinary hospital for further rehabilitation. &#160; Read more&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Granting safe passage to panthers&#8211;New roadside detectors in Florida</title>
		<link>http://easterncougar.org/CougarNews/?p=5550</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 21:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Co-existence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Panther]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This technique can help wildlife cross highways across the nation. &#160; http://www.defenders.org/magazine/spring-2012/granting-safe-passage-panthers Defenders of Wildlife &#8211; Defenders Magazine &#8211; Spring 2012 Granting Safe Passage to Panthers New roadside detectors in Florida help the big cats get to the other side by Caitlin Leutwiler Big Cypress teems with wildlife and is a refuge for the critically endangered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The National Urban Wildlife Coalition&#8211;Telling it like it is</title>
		<link>http://easterncougar.org/CougarNews/?p=5545</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 21:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Eastern Cougar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that only the opinions of hunters, ranchers and farmers seem be to heeded when state wildlife agencies (SWAs) and their commissioners make decisions affecting cougars?  Why is it that in making these decisions, maximizing the &#8220;harvest&#8221; of deer, elk and bighorn sheep seem to be the main consideration.  Why can hunters and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Park on South Dakota&#8217;s Pine Ridge: A Longtime Partnership May Finally Lead to the United States&#8217; First Tribal National Park</title>
		<link>http://easterncougar.org/CougarNews/?p=5541</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 20:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They are already working with paleontologists to reintroduce the swift fox to the landscape, as well as the mountain lion, which has been pretty much hunted down, and big horn sheep.” Cougar Rewilding is delighted that the Oglala Sioux are establishing this new park, and that the cougars that are being so heavily hammered by hunters [...]]]></description>
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