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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.1/detente-in-the-rancher-v.-environmentalist-grazing-wars">        <title>Detente in the rancher v. environmentalist grazing wars?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.1/detente-in-the-rancher-v.-environmentalist-grazing-wars</link>        <description>Buying out grazing permits from willing ranchers could help solve conflicts over grazing on public lands.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rural economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Barrasso</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Environmental Policy Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public lands grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Brian Ertz</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Land Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grazing allotments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>buying out grazing permits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Public Lands Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Horning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>WildEarth Guardians</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cattle grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sheep grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>livestock grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grazing Improvement Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal lands management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western Watersheds Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Obama environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>agriculture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>legislative gridlock</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing laws</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rural communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Omnibus Public Lands Management Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rep. Adam Smith</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bighorn sheep</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sheepherders</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing wars</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>112th Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>overgrazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rural Economic Vitalization Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>range improvements</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-01-29T18:08:07Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.2/western-court-scraps-intervention-restrictions-for-environmental-lawsuits">        <title>Western court scraps intervention restrictions for enviro lawsuits</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.2/western-court-scraps-intervention-restrictions-for-environmental-lawsuits</link>        <description>The 9th Circuit Court tosses its "federal defendant" rule, giving interested parties a clearer path for intervening in environmental lawsuits.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>federal defendant rule</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Environmental Policy Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>9th Circuit Court of Appeals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>motorized recreation</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-02-11T15:21:23Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.14/crude-combat">        <title>Crude combat</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.14/crude-combat</link>        <description>Can U.S. environmentalists derail a huge Canadian tar sands project that affects this side of the border?</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>pipeline</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Resources Defense Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Environmental Policy Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>refineries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>TransCanada</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tar sands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental law</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2013-02-21T16:56:40Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.23/not-so-dead-on-arrival">        <title>Not so dead on arrival</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.23/not-so-dead-on-arrival</link>        <description>Thanks to the incompetence of the Bush administration and the tenacity of environmental lawyers, the Roadless Rule has survived for 8 years.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rob Inglis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Natural Resources Defense Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Environmental Policy Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judge Clarence Brimmer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Wilderness Society</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Roadless Rule</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judge Elizabeth LaPorte</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:31:49Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/320/16240">        <title>Pete McCloskey rides again</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/320/16240</link>        <description>Former California Rep. Pete McCloskey says the need to
defend the environment is behind his decision to run against
Richard Pombo in the Republican primary</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Patrick Farrell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Elections</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pete McCloskey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republican primary</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>elections</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Abramoff scandal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Environmental Policy Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public land sales</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>anti-environmentalists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republican party</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wayne Johnson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yolo
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                    <dc:subject>Lodi</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:33:32Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15876">        <title>Forest Service greases the skids for oil and gas</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15876</link>        <description>The Forest Service wants to create a new type of
"categorical exclusion" to make it easier for oil and gas drilling
projects to be approved without environmental study or public
input</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Emma Brown</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wayde Schafer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Grassland</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Club</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Environmental Policy Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>categorical</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sierra</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling applications</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas permits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dakota Prairie</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>exclusions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Skip Underwood</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fe</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/295/15404">        <title>Rock jocks fight a mining company</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/295/15404</link>        <description>Resolution Copper Company is trying to obtain a land swap
in order to mine at Arizona’s Oak Flat campground, a popular
rock-climbing spot</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Hilary Watts</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Copper</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oak Flat campground</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Superior</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arizona</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Resolution Copper
Company</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rio Tinto Company</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land swaps</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Land Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rock
climbing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining impacts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Environmental Policy Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jason
Keit</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:08Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/292/15298">        <title>State sues over Sierra forest plan</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/292/15298</link>        <description>The state of California is suing the U.S. Forest Service
for approving a new management plan that more than triples logging
in the Sierra Nevada</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>J.M. McCord</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sierra Nevada Framework</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill
Lockyer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom Dresslar</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Environmental Policy Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>old-growth forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Matt Mathes</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/257/14213">        <title>NEPA gets short shrift in the courts</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/257/14213</link>        <description>A recent study by Defenders of Wildlife documents the Bush
administration’s unprecedented rollback of the National
Environmental Policy Act</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Hal Clifford</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NEPA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Environmental Policy Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Defenders of
Wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental legislation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>anti-environmentalism</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:13:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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