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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15327">        <title>Small tribe in Idaho weighs big water deal</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15327</link>        <description>The Nez Perce tribe is close to a major water-rights
settlement with Idaho and the federal government, but not everyone
thinks it’s a good idea for the tribe or for endangered
salmon.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nez Perce</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Snake River Water Rights Adjudication</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Allen
Pinkham Sr.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Celilo Falls</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dalles Dam</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Indian water rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clearwater River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of
Reclamation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>irrigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho Water Resources
Board</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>D</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:43Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/289/15193">        <title>Fisheries agency rewards a loyal bureaucrat</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/289/15193</link>        <description>Environmentalists and some of his own biologists say James
Lecky sold out the endangered fish he was charged with protecting,
but NOAA Fisheries has just given him a promotion</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>NOAA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>James Lecky</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Michael Kelly</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Klamath fish kill</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered
fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sacramento Bay/Delta</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Reclamation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pat Ford</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Zeke Grader</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s
Association</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:22:40Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/281/14957">        <title>Follow-up</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/281/14957</link>        <description>EPA plans to streamline pesticide registration; Los
Angeles puts the brakes on superstores; El Paso Corp. pushes to
drill New Mexico’s Valle Vidal; and black-tailed prairie dog
no longer a candidate for endangered species list</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laura Paskus</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pesticide registration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental Protection Agency</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Los Angeles City Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wal-Mart</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>superstores</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>economic assistance zones</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Valle Vidal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Carson National Forest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>El
Pa</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:20:55Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/275/14758">        <title>Property-rights lawyers score one against wild
salmon</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/275/14758</link>        <description>NOAA Fisheries is drafting new regulations that will allow
hatchery-raised fish to be counted along with wild salmon and
steelhead, a move that property-rights lawyers hope will take the
species off the endangered list</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>steelhead</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fish hatcheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental issues</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pacific Legal
Foundation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Russ Brooks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nicole
Cordan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Karen Budd-Falen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property-rights movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental
lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bri</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:57:22Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/267/14520">        <title>Mending the Nets</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/267/14520</link>        <description>Port Orford, Ore., is working hard to create a new kind of
community-based, sustainable fisheries management for the
over-fished ocean</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rebecca Clarren</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Fishing Industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Port Orford</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oregon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fishing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Port Orford Ocean Resource
Team</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sustainability</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>groundfish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>trawlers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fisheries management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ocean ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pacific Ocean</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>marine reserves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Magnuson Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bycatch</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:56:00Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/306/15786">        <title>Agency slashes critical habitat for salmon</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/306/15786</link>        <description>Faced with a lawsuit by the National Association of Home
Builders, NOAA Fisheries decides to strip protections from
four-fifths of the currently designated critical habitat for
salmon</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Emma Brown</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Association of
Home Builders</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>critical habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ernie Platt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jan Hasselman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Wildlife Federation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Brian Gorman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush environmental
policy</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-05T23:05:02Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/305/15751">        <title>The Snake River, unplugged</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/305/15751</link>        <description>The Nez Perce Tribe says that salmon-killing dams -- such
as the three in Hells Canyon whose licenses are up for renewal this
year – amount to an illegal "taking" of the tribe’s
guaranteed right to fish</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rachel Odell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dams And Water Supply Projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Indian
Culture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nez Perce Tribe</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Elmer Crow</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tribal fishing
rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydroelectric</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>takings clause</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Constitution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>treaty
rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>William Orrick</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bolt Decision</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John
Echohawk</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Doug Nas</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-08T22:23:02Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/300/15574">        <title>For salmon, a crucial moment of decision</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/300/15574</link>        <description>A judge has thrown out the Bush administration’s
salmon protection plan, setting the stage for dramatic changes to
the federal hydropower system</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rocky Barker</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dams And Water Supply Projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hydropower</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judge James Redden</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush
administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush salmon plan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon recovery</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush
environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dam-breaching</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Snake
River dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Columbia River dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bob Lohn</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>William Dwyer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Northwest
Forest Pl</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-03-18T23:26:50Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15511">        <title>Cows versus condos -- Northwest style</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15511</link>        <description>Some say that Washington’s Forests and Fish rules
could be so hard on small timber farms that the owners are likely
to sell out to development, to the detriment of salmon and other
wildlife</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forests and Fish plan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>national forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>road building</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington Forest
Protection Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington Forest Law Center</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Peter
Goldman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>habitat conservation plans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>steam buffers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington s</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-30T21:49:54Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15510">        <title>In the Washington woods, managers face a catch-22</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15510</link>        <description>The Forests and Fish plan was supposed to help both salmon
and the timber industry in Washington State, but clauses in the
agreement may tilt it against wildlife</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forests and Fish plan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>national forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>road building</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington Forest
Protection Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington Forest Law Center</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Peter
Goldman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>habitat conservation plans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>steam buffers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington s</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-30T21:46:12Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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