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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.23/jonathan-thompson">        <title>The Bush legacy: It's not all bad </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.23/jonathan-thompson</link>        <description>This special issue takes a close look at the Bush administration's  environmental policies and considers what can be done to repair the damage.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jonathan Thompson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush environmental policy</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:57:25Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/how-to-survive-the-lean-times">        <title>How to survive the lean times</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/how-to-survive-the-lean-times</link>        <description>Her brush with homelessness gives Jane Goetze the background to offer some wry advice.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jane Goetze</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Public lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Collaboration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republicans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bruce Babbitt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Obama cabinet nominations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Democrats</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:14:34Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-chance-to-do-it-right-in-the-west">        <title>A chance to do it right in the West</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-chance-to-do-it-right-in-the-west</link>        <description>Hoping for a Western Interior secretary who practices the politics of collaboration.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Daniel Kemmis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Public lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republicans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Collaboration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bruce Babbitt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Obama cabinet nominations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Democrats</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:27:04Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/305/15753">        <title>Science: The chink in Quivira's armor</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/305/15753</link>        <description>The Quivira Coalition has a lot of anecdotal evidence
supporting its claim that its grazing methods work, but hard,
independent science on the topic is much harder to find</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Biodiversity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Quivira Coalition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>range science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rest-rotation grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arid Lands Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Malpai Borderlands Group</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gray Ranch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Charles
Curtin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paonia Ranger District</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dave Bradford</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jack
Hagelstein</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Comanche Creek allotment</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joel Brown</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Natural Resources
Conserv</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:26:07Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/305/15752">        <title>The 'New Ranch' poster child hangs on by a
thread</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/305/15752</link>        <description>Rancher Jim Williams believes the Quivira Coalition helped
change his life, but restoring his arid rangeland has proved
difficult, and between drought and an uncertain economy, the future
of his ranch still hangs in the balance</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Communities in Transition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy
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                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Williams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Agua Fria allotment</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Quivira Coaltion</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drought</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranching</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rest-rotation grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Pierson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Courtney White</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Guy McPherson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>range science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>stream restoration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forest thinning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kirk Gadzia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cattle
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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/264/14421">        <title>Save the middle ground: Hug a radical</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/264/14421</link>        <description>Even though it’s true that without the radical
extremes, there would be no middle ground, to save wilderness in
the Bush era, environmental hard-liners need to ease up on
consensus deals</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Greg Hanscom</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Consensus groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental
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                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing issues</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness preservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness legislation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Owyhee County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>collaborative
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                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:55:31Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/264/14420">        <title>Riding the middle path</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/264/14420</link>        <description>A homegrown consensus effort called the Owyhee Initiative
is trying to save both wilderness and ranching in southwestern
Idaho – but in the polarized Bush era, consensus is often
controversial</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Robyn Morrison</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Consensus groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>collaborative efforts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental
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                    <dc:subject>wilderness protection</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranching</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing issues</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Owyhee
Canyonlands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Owyhee County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Owyhee Initiative</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western
Watersheds Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Committee for the High Desert</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Craig Gehrke</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chad</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:55:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/185/6004">        <title>Conserving connections</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/185/6004</link>        <description>The Chatfield Basin Conservation Network brings together
businesspeople, county officials, road builders and
environmentalists to preserve open space and wildlife habitat south
of Denver, Colo.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Kayley Mendenhall</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:03:23Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/162/5237">        <title>Quincy experiment to begin</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/162/5237</link>        <description>The Quincy Library Group sees its controversial forest
plan put into action when the Forest Service doubles logging on
California's Plumas, Lassen and Tahoe national forests while
protecting habitat for the northern spotted owl.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jane Braxton Little</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:38:19Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/153/4957">        <title>Quincy Library Group bars outsiders</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/153/4957</link>        <description>The consensus-based Quincy Library Group has decided to
hold some of its meetings behind closed doors, to prevent what
members describe as "disruptions" from opponents of the group's
controversial forest plan.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jane Braxton Little</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:10:27Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/59/1853">        <title>A sampling of the West's collaborative efforts</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/59/1853</link>        <description>A directory of some Western consensus groups is followed
by a bibliography of consensus-building materials.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Mcclellan</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:04:09Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/59/1852">        <title>Everyone helps a California forest - except the Forest
Service</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/59/1852</link>        <description>The Quincy Library Group of Plumas County, Calif., has won
much approval nationally and yet finds itself having to battle the
Forest Serivce on its own ground.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jon Christensen</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:04:08Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/59/1845">        <title>Bringing back grizzlies splits
environmentalists</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/59/1845</link>        <description>What seems on the surface to be a successful consensus
effort to restore grizzlies to central Idaho and western Montana
has provoked a bitter split among Northern Rockies
environmentalists many of whom believe the plan will harm bears
rather than help.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ed Marston</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:04:05Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/59/1844">        <title>A progressive commissioner takes the heat</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/59/1844</link>        <description>Montezuma County Commissioner and Colorado rancher Tom
Colbert proves himself an independent and determined
thinker.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:04:04Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/59/1843">        <title>A Colorado county tries a novel approach: work the
system</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/59/1843</link>        <description>County commissioners, forest rangers and other Montezuma
County residents begin to come together to find a way to manage
their public lands.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:04:04Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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