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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15836">        <title>The end of something really big</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15836</link>        <description>The writer visits the remains of a dead whale — so
big that a dignified resting place proves elusive</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Nijhuis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:47:50Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15831">        <title>Lions and cheetahs and elephants, yippee</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15831</link>        <description>The writer imagines a West populated by African wildlife
as a bizarre "home on the veldt"</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Linda M. Hasselstrom</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:47:47Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15637">        <title>Lions and tigers and wolves, oh my, even in the
Midwest</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15637</link>        <description>The writer says lions are moving east into Nebraska and
other Midwestern states</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Pete Letheby</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:47:03Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15394">        <title>You've come a long way, bison</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15394</link>        <description>The writer sees a leaner bison on the nation’s new
nickel, an animal that yearns to roam free</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Mary Ann Franke</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:45:42Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/315/16081">        <title>Tiny stream invaders may harm Western trout</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/315/16081</link>        <description>The tiny New Zealand mud snails that are rapidly invading
the West’s waters may pose a threat to the region’s
trout</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fishing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Zealand mud snails</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dave Richards</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Snake River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EcoAnalysts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>invasive species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>exotic species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>trout</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>aquatic insects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hatcheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fishing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>anglers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dan
Gustafson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>stream ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Robert Hall</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>invertebrate</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:47Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/272/14677">        <title>Are mountain lions in danger of disappearing?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/272/14677</link>        <description>Disappearing habitat and an increase in hunting quotas
based on politics and guesswork are threatening the stability of
mountain lion populations in the West.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Hunting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Threatened And
Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mountain lions</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Western</dc:subject>        
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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/235/13409">        <title>Crawdads get the boot, but not the boil</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/235/13409</link>        <description>Volunteers at Arizona's Fossil Creek tackled the problem
of invasive crawfish by rounding them up and leaving them on the
ground to die, when they proved too small to eat.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Anne Minard</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:54:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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a mountain lion as her guardian during a bout with the
flu.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Miriam L. Austin</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:54:06Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/182/5903">        <title>Help search for snakes</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/182/5903</link>        <description>Biologist Nikolle Brown is seeking photographs and
information on any reptiles seen in the Grand Canyon for her Snakes
of the Grand Canyon Identification and Distribution
Project.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Kayley Mendenhall</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:02:29Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/181/5871">        <title>Crawdads colonize the West's waterways</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/181/5871</link>        <description>Exotic crayfish are invading streams throughout the West,
and devastating the native crayfish and other riparian
wildlife.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Guy Webster</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:02:05Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/171/5523">        <title>Political war continues over bison herd</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/171/5523</link>        <description>Despite federal pressure, Montana refuses to budge on its
policy of killing bison that stray from Yellowstone National Park,
out of fear they may carry brucellosis.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Andrea Barnett</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:59:24Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/163/5271">        <title>Disease is wasting the West's wild herds</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/163/5271</link>        <description>Chronic wasting disease is slowly spreading among the
West's deer and elk herds, and some fear that game farms are partly
to blame for the transmission of the deadly disease.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Hal Herring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:38:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/154/5003">        <title>Spinning back the bison</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/154/5003</link>        <description>The writer spins shed bison wool from a bison ranch into
rich and beautiful yarn, and muses about the wild bison that once
roamed her part of the West.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Louise Wagenknecht</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:10:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/152/4927">        <title>Montana won't bend for bison</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/152/4927</link>        <description>Despite word from the federal government that bison do not
threaten cattle with brucellosis, Montana continues to crack down
on stray animals and arrest protesters.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rachel Odell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:10:06Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/150/4855">        <title>Bison may get ground to stand on</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/150/4855</link>        <description>Highlights from the Church Universal and Triumphant's
proposal to allow bison to roam free on the Royal Teton
Ranch.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Scott Mcmillion</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Other Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:09:29Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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