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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16224">        <title>Thank you, Gale Norton</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16224</link>        <description>The writer thanks Gale Norton for inspiring Westerners to
form a new kind of coalition</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:29:02Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16199">        <title>Seeing the legacy of Interior Secretary Gale
Norton</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16199</link>        <description>The writer confronts Interior Secretary Gale Norton at an
unexpected place</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Terry Tempest Williams</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:28:57Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16468">        <title>Just why did Gale Norton leave the interior
department?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16468</link>        <description>The writer thinks he knows why Gale Norton quit</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jon Margolis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:40:46Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/319/16220">        <title>Washing our hands</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/319/16220</link>        <description>The writer tells of an unexpected encounter with Interior
Secretary Gale Norton, and the conversation that ensued</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Terry Tempest Williams</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gale Norton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Terry Tempest Williams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political disagreements</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy
policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mike Leavitt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Four
C’s</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:33:25Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/314/16062">        <title>Planting seeds for preservation</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/314/16062</link>        <description>In Cities in the Wilderness, former
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt makes an eloquent argument for
more enlightened federal land-use planning</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Gary Wockner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bruce Babbitt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clinton administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cities in the
Wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>national monuments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>government
officials</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior secretaries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land
preservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal government</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Theodore Roosevelt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land-use
planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mem</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:37Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15875">        <title>Homeland Security gets to bypass environmental
laws</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15875</link>        <description>Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff is using the
recently passed Real ID Act to bypass environmental, safety and
labor laws in order to build a giant border fence south of San
Diego</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Burkhart</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S.-Mexico border</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Homeland Security</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Michael Chertoff</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental laws</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>safety laws</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>labor laws</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Real ID Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National
Guard</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Border Patrol</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tijuana Estuary</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>southwestern willow flycatcher</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Peter Douglas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California Coastal
Commis</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:29Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15258">        <title>Bush's second-term shake-ups</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15258</link>        <description>Some of the less-publicized political appointments of
George W. Bush’s second term will have huge effects on the
West. Meet the people who will direct the EPA and the departments
of Energy, Agriculture and the Interior.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laura Paskus</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Mike Leavitt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>American Association
for the Advancement of Science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Eric Schaeffer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental
Integrity Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Superfund</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Water
Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Department of Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Spencer Abraham</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Stephen Johnson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kei
Koiz</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:07Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/275/14781">        <title>The Complete Gale Norton Interview</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/275/14781</link>        <description>The complete HCN interview with Interior Secretary Gale
Norton</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Alex Pasquariello</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gale Norton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Secretary of
Interior</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:57:33Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/275/14764">        <title>A champion of 'cooperative conservation': Interior
Secretary Gale Norton</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/275/14764</link>        <description>Interior Secretary Gale Norton talks to High Country News
about her "Four C’s" credo: "Communication, consultation and
cooperation, all in the service of conservation"</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Alex Pasquariello</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gale Norton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Four C’s</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush
administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clinton administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>multiple use</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush
environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bruce Babbitt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>predator management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Roan Plateau</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush energy poli</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:57:25Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/221/11061">        <title>Bush administration wall hanging</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/221/11061</link>        <description>Earthjustice's free 2002 calendar, "(Dis)Appointments:
Bush Officials and the Administration's Environmental Record,"
offers discouraging words about, and unflattering photos of, the
Bush administration's appointees.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rebecca Clarren</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:52:03Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/220/11033">        <title>Greens join 'Let's derail a judge' game</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/220/11033</link>        <description>Environmentalists adopt the conservative strategy of
working to derail the nomination of federal judges whom they fear
could harm their cause.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:51:51Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/220/11016">        <title>Predator politics gets ugly in Idaho</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/220/11016</link>        <description>Under pressure from ranchers, Gov. Dirk Kempthorne and
other conservatives, Rod Sando resigns from his position as
director of Idaho's Department of Fish and Game.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rocky Barker and Roger Phillips</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:51:42Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/207/10630">        <title>Forestry nominee: Rey of light or death Rey?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/207/10630</link>        <description>Supporters call Mark Rey, Bush's nominee for
undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and the
Environment, a forest management expert, but wary environmentalists
liken him to Darth Vader and Machiavelli.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jane Braxton Little</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:35:49Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/195/10225">        <title>Weirdness abounds in Washington</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/195/10225</link>        <description>His choices of Gale Norton for Interior Secretary and John
Ashcroft for Attorney General show that George W. Bush has already
abandoned bipartisanship.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jon Margolis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:33:25Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/194/10196">        <title>Coloradan tapped for Interior</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/194/10196</link>        <description>President-elect George W. Bush has nominated former
Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton to head the Interior
Department, and some environmentalists are worried about her ties
to industry.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rebecca Clarren</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:33:14Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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