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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/288/15156">        <title>Old-growth sales end in courts</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/288/15156</link>        <description>A judge rules against a plan to salvage-log old-growth
wood from the Timbered Rock Fire in Oregon, and the ruling could
affect other proposed fire sales in old-growth forests</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Fattig</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salvage logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>old growth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forest fires</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Timbered Rock
Fire</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Biscuit Fire</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>timber sales</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judge Ann Aiken</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM Medford
District</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chris West</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>American Forest Resource Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George
Sexton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lance Nimmo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Northwest
Forest</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:22:10Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/274/14738">        <title>Seattle embarks on a dramatic experiment in
restoration</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/274/14738</link>        <description>Ecologists working for the city of Seattle, Wash., are
trying to make the second-growth forest of the Cedar River
Watershed function ecologically like an old-growth forest</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>David Williams</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Seattle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cedar River Watershed</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>old-growth
forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>woods</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forest restoration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pacific Northwest ecosystem</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Puget Sound chinook salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jerry Franklin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Erckmann</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Melissa Borsting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>restoration ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Seattle Public
Utilities</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:57:14Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/260/14303">        <title>Return of the King</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/260/14303</link>        <description>Scientists have finally found a way to save the white pine
from blister rust – but finding space in the forest to plant
new trees is proving almost as difficult</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Mark Matthews</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>White pine</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>blister rust</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pinus Monticola</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho
Panhandle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Potlatch Corp.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Schwandt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>old-growth
forest</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:13:57Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/227/11254">        <title>Woody leviathans</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/227/11254</link>        <description>Robert Van Pelt's book, "Forest Giants of the Pacific
Coast," talks about the unique, large old trees along the Pacific
Coast, and his experiences searching for them.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julie Elliott</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:53:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/178/5796">        <title>Logging doesn't cut it</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/178/5796</link>        <description>The video "Ancient Forests: The Power of Place" is
designed to educate people to the harm done by logging in the
Northwest's old-growth forests.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Robyn Morrison</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:01:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/167/5392">        <title>Tree-sitters and timber company celebrate</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/167/5392</link>        <description>A land swap set up by Plum Creek Timber Co., the Forest
Service and eight environmental groups will protect some of the
last old growth remaining in Washington's Gifford Pinchot National
Forest.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ali Macalady</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:13:38Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/160/5177">        <title>Judge halts nine timber sales</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/160/5177</link>        <description>Federal Judge William Dwyer has blocked nine major timber
sales, saying that the Forest Service and the BLM have failed to
protect rare animal and plant species in old-growth forest, as
required under the Northwest Forest Plan.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tim Westby</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:37:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/159/5148">        <title>Old growth by the numbers</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/159/5148</link>        <description>Idaho environmentalists dispute the Clearwater National
Forest's claim to have fulfilled a pledge to set aside 10 percent
of the forest in old-growth reserves.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Dustin Solberg</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:37:36Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/144/4655">        <title>Using tools of destruction to restore redwoods</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/144/4655</link>        <description>Pacific Watershed Associates was started by former Forest
Service geologists Bill Weaver and Danny Hagans to help restore
watersheds and old-growth forests by erosion-proofing closed forest
roads.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jim Hight</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:08:11Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/143/4620">        <title>A patchwork peace unravels</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/143/4620</link>        <description>The uncertain truce set up by Pres. Clinton's 1993
Northwest Forest Plan is threatened by dissatisfaction as
environmentalists, loggers and scientists still fight over
remaining old growth and cannot agree how best to manage the
forests.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Chris Carrel</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:07:54Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/138/4435">        <title>Headwaters deal gets tougher</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/138/4435</link>        <description>Working on the bill that would protect the old-growth
redwood Headwaters grove, the California Legislature adds tougher
environmental standards for the land surrounding the trees, also
owned by Pacific Lumber.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Nijhuis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:06:24Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/135/4343">        <title>At Tahoe, it's agreed: old growth gets to stay</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/135/4343</link>        <description>Old-growth ponderosa pine trees in the Lake Tahoe Basin -
both green and standing dead trees - will be protected from logging
under a new regulation.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jane Braxton Little</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:05:49Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/128/4088">        <title>The Western Ancient Forest Campaign</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/128/4088</link>        <description>The Western Ancient Forest Campaign has a new office in
California's Sierra Nevada foothills.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:53:45Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/120/3834">        <title>Ancient cedars get a life</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/120/3834</link>        <description>The Forest Service puts together a land swap that saves a
530-acre grove of 1,200-year-old trees from logging.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Sara Phillips</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:51:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/80/2484">        <title>New policy for old growth</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/80/2484</link>        <description>The Forest Service screening of sales of old-growth timber
east of the Cascades draws protest from loggers.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Old Growth</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:08:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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