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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-future-of-big-fires-and-tiny-bugs">        <title>A future of big fires and tiny bugs</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-future-of-big-fires-and-tiny-bugs</link>        <description>A second-generation forest ranger considers how fire prevention and climate change are affecting the forests he once roamed with his father.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Frank Carroll</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>grazing reform</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bark beetles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forest rangers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>overgrown forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fire prevention</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico Blue River country</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forest management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Frank Carroll</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service childhoods</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forest fires</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western landscape</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drought</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rural Western life</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-04-17T18:47:52Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16316">        <title>Puppets on the range</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16316</link>        <description>The writer tells how Kit and Sherry Laney became puppets
of the property-rights movement, sending the Forest Service into
fits</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ted Williams</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:29:24Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15934">        <title>When a forest goes feral, it’s time for
volunteers</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15934</link>        <description>The writer says volunteers who help manage the Roosevelt
National Forest see their work almost as recreation</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Richard Knight</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:28:01Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15152">        <title>Now that we’ve clear-cut the Forest
Service…</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15152</link>        <description>The writer once suggested that the U.S. Forest Service
clear-cut itself; to his surprise, it did</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ed Marston</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:44:20Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14890">        <title>One significant step toward reining in those pesky
all-terrain vehicles</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14890</link>        <description>The writer says that at last, the Forest Service seeks to
curtail off-road vehicles on all 155 national forests</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Sean Smith</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Off Road Vehicles</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:43:02Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14728">        <title>Forest Service duplicity stands out like a
clearcut</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14728</link>        <description>The writer criticizes the Forest Service for selling a
logging plan in California with Montana photos</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>John Krist</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:41:59Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/articles/16885">        <title>Help is on the way for the nation’s forest
workers</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/articles/16885</link>        <description>The Forest Service is making changes that promise to
improve the quality of life for the workers who thin and restore
the nation's forests.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Erin Halcomb</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>workers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pineros</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>restoration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>contractors</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:40:29Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/314/16044">        <title>Forest Service shuts down 'three old geezers'</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/314/16044</link>        <description>Armed law enforcement officers prevented three
environmentalists, including 83-year-old Stewart Brandborg, from
attending a Forest Service press conference in Hamilton,
Mont.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring and Carlotta Grandstaff</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Stewart Brandborg</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bitterroot National Forest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest
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                    <dc:subject>Healthy Forests Restoration Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dave Bull</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Missoulian</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Friends of the Bitterroot</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>thinning</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:33Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/313/16026">        <title>Backcountry Ranger</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/313/16026</link>        <description>Backcountry seasonal ranger Tony Prendergast has spent
much of the past six summers working in western Colorado’s
Gunnison National Forest</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>JT Thomas</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tony Prendergast</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gunnison National Forest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forest
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                    <dc:subject>backcountry rangers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>outfitters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>camping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>horses</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/313/16007">        <title>Where have all the rangers gone?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/313/16007</link>        <description>Budget crunches have thinned Forest Service staffing even
as visitor numbers soar, making it hard to enforce regulations such
as trail closures</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Burkhart</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Off-road vehicles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Eldorado National Forest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Plasse’s Resort</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ken Stroth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>trails</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>motorized vehicle access</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>all-terrain vehicles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>motorcycles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>snowmobiles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado Off-Highway Vehicle Coalition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ann Melle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>law
enforcement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Harry Shiles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>J</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:25Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15870">        <title>Forest Service tries to teach greens a lesson</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15870</link>        <description>The Forest Service’s claim that a recent court order
would suspend routine activities – such as cutting Christmas
trees or picking mushrooms – has been dismissed by the judge
as the agency’s attempt to blow the issue out of
proportion</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Burkhart</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>James K. Singleton Jr.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>court orders</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>categorical exclusions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public appeals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Earth Island Institute</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Matt Kenna</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western Environmental Law Center</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Andy Stahl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest
Service Employees for Environmental Ethics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service Decision
Maki</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:26Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/299/15536">        <title>For sale: Your local ranger station?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/299/15536</link>        <description>Facing severe budget cuts, the Forest Service is selling
off property, and considering closing some recreation sites it
considers too expensive to maintain</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michael Milstein</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranger stations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>recreation
sites</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>campsites</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land sales</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>government auctions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>budget cuts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Sowa</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hank Kashdan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Healthy Forests Initiative</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Deschutes National Forest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Winema
Nation</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:53Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15326">        <title>Forest Service employees and activist face racketeering
charges</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15326</link>        <description>In Fawnskin, Calif., an activist and two Forest Service
employees helped stop a condo development. Now they're getting sued
under a federal racketeering act.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Weiser</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Land Use And Planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sandy Steers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Robin Eliason</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Scott Eliason</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest
Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Friends of Fawnskin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Marina Point Development Associates</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Irving Okovita</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Andy Stahl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Free speech</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal employees</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Frank Fraley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>S. Wayne
Ros</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/293/15324">        <title>Political appointee slashes forest protections</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15324</link>        <description>David Tenny of the Department of Agriculture has used his
discretionary powers to alter the master plan for Colorado’s
White River National Forest, lessening its protections for water
and wildlife.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Bob Berwyn</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>White River National Forest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mozart Creek</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest
Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Keystone Ski Area</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vail Resorts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>David P. Tenny</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Canada
lynx</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Denver Post</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Breckenridge</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vail</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arapahoe Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forest planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rep. Bob Smith</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mark Rey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Harris
Sherman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arnol</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:41Z</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>



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