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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.5/volunteering-provides-a-special-experience-in-national-parks">        <title>Volunteering provides a special experience in national parks</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.5/volunteering-provides-a-special-experience-in-national-parks</link>        <description>Retirees and interns donate millions of hours in national parks, and get to know the parks intimately.
</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Henry Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>retiree</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Student Conservation Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>intern</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Big Bend</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>volunteer</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2013-03-27T15:36:03Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/308/15842">        <title>Handling griz: How much is enough?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/308/15842</link>        <description>Increasing numbers of the West’s grizzly bears wear
radio collars, and some environmentalists question the necessity of
the practice</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Colleen O'Brien and Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Threatened And Endangered Species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>collars</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>threatened and</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grizzly bears</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Department of Fis</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rick Mace</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Glacier</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Doug Peacock</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>radio</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Northern Continental Divide ecosystem</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-09-26T14:48:53Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/265/14464">        <title>Wildlife win one in Yellowstone</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/265/14464</link>        <description>The National Wildlife Federation negotiates two important
land deals with ranchers in the Yellowstone area, ending grazing on
Horse Butte and protecting local bison</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>bison</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Wildlife Federation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Forest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom France</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Horse Butte</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grizzly</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bridger-Teton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Blackrock-Spead Creek</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grazing</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:55:46Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/323/16321">        <title>'Clinging hopelessly to the past'</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/323/16321</link>        <description>In his determination to cling, however hopelessly, to
Utah’s past, Canyon Country Zephyr founder
Jim Stiles has taken on miners, ranchers, developers, mountain
bikers and – most recently – some of his fellow
environmentalists</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>M. John Fayhee</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Media</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Communities in Transition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Stiles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Canyon Country Zephyr</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Moab</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Utah</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arches
National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Edward Abbey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Desert Solitaire</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>small town
newspapers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>independent media</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>curmudgeons</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>eccentrics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hermits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>controversialists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Brave New West</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>writers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>editors</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>publishers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-11T22:17:47Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/355/17258">        <title>Spinner of yarns, maker of floats</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/355/17258</link>        <description>Black George Simmons – an 84-year-old park volunteer
with a flair for colorful stories – dishes out root beer
floats to anyone who visits his tiny log cabin in Grand Teton
National Park.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Sikorski</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Grand Teton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>storytellers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>park volunteers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>colorful characters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Black George Simmons</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-25T22:44:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/346/17018">        <title>Tipping the scales towards native species</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/346/17018</link>        <description>In Unnatural Landscapes, Ceiridwin Terrill travels to four
arid sites to show how scientists fight to protect indigenous
organisms from invasive species</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Aaron Gilbreath</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>feral pig</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Unnatural Landscapes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Phil</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pister</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>weeds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>invasive</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>exotic species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Owens pupfish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Louisiana crawfish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Concordia University</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>thistle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Invasive species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Russian</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>scientists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>iceplant</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ceiridwin Terrill</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-06T20:59:10Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/331/16606">        <title>Leave only footprints, and turn the darn phone off</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/331/16606</link>        <description>Cell phones have their uses, but they do not belong in the
wilderness</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Becky Lomax</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cell phones</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>backpackers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>solitude</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cell phone towers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Human Beings and</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>electronic</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nature</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>technology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>equipment</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Becky Lomax</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>noise</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lake Mead National Recreation Area</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>emergencies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sound</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ma</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tent camping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>quiet</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wireless companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-10-26T21:59:01Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/339/16811">        <title>Two weeks in the West</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/339/16811</link>        <description>Cross-country skiers and snowmobilers clash over access to
Logan Canyon, Utah; Mount Jefferson, Mont.; and (of course)
Yellowstone; Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth steps down to be
replaced by Gail Kimbell; West becomes player in national politics;
bor</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jonathan Thompson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>recreation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>winter outdoor</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salt Lake City culture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>off-road vehicles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mount Jefferson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Utah</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>snowshoes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cross-country skiers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>access</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>snowmobile access</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Logan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>motorized vehicles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mike Simpson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Canyon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nati</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>snowboarders</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-26T21:44:08Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/336/16729">        <title>A director from central casting</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/336/16729</link>        <description>Mary Bomar, the brand-new director of the National Park
Service, worked her up through the agency’s
bureaucracy</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jeff Johnson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Arlen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yel</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Senate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Wade</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mary Bomar</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Historic Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oakes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Shenandoah</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Independence</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Parks Conservation Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>confirmation hearings</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Specter</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coalition of National Park Service Retirees</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-07T22:06:25Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/336/16723">        <title>Whistling in the park</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/336/16723</link>        <description>Whistleblowing is not as romantic as Woodward’s
"Deep Throat" makes it sound, but the retired public servants who
make up the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees are doing
valuable work, blowing the whistle for the sake of the national
parks</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>John Mecklin</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>government ethics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paul Hoffman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Whistleblowers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>employees</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Stephen J. Lyons</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>whistleblowers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cody Chamber of Commerce</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bob Woodward</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Deep Throat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>PEER</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coalition of National Park Service Retirees</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yosemite</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-07T22:08:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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