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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.15/for-western-politicians-roots-matter">        <title>For Western politicians, roots matter</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.15/for-western-politicians-roots-matter</link>        <description>In the rural West, how deep a candidate's family roots go -- how long they've lived in the area -- sometimes matters more than his or her experience or political opinions.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Delta County commission races</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Political campaigns</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Denny Rehberg</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jon Tester</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Election 2012</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Family history</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ed Marston</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mark Roeber</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Old West versus New West</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-09-03T15:28:56Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.12/who-can-capture-the-forest-service">        <title>Who can capture the Forest Service? </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.12/who-can-capture-the-forest-service</link>        <description>The national forests are in such terrible shape that it's worth trying a few experiments in collaborative restoration work.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer   </dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>logging industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Beaverhead-Deerlodge Partnership</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>national forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental movement</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-10-06T17:21:45Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.11/eccentricity-and-wildness">        <title>Eccentricity and wildness</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.11/eccentricity-and-wildness</link>        <description>Western eccentrics are found underwater as well as in the high country.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Snohomish River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>open-water swimming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Country News readers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Edwin Dobb</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western eccentrics</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-06-18T20:28:31Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>Cally Carswell</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jonathan Thompson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pulitzer Prize</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sarah Gilman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paonia, Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jodi Peterson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New York Times</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Country News</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-05-04T16:40:39Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>Christopher Cokinos</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paonia, Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Country News</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mental Health America Media Awards</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:36:18Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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the ways.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Barry Bonds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>steroids</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drug abuse</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western
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                    <dc:subject>methamphetamines</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>caffeine</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>humor</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:44:51Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/370/17689">        <title>Dear friends</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/370/17689</link>        <description>Ray Ring wins Hillman journalism award; Sopris Surfers
gives free Internet to intern house; hcn.org; welcome, Mandela Lou
Hoffman; Camas literary magazine; corrections.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>High Country News</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paonia</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Nathaniel Hoffman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Camas</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:39:34Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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new book of poetry and photographs, Yellowstone Rising; and
Paonia’s Mary Bear Volk celebrates 99 years.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson and Betsy Marston</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>High Country News</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paonia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Heywood
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                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mary Bear Volk</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>99-year-olds</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:39:21Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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design awards, and Ray Ring is a finalist for a major journalism
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                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sarah Gilman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Society for News Design</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cindy Wehling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paul Lachine</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>journalism awards</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:39:06Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>Dear Friends</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paonia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High
Country News Board of Directors</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hcn.org</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Web sites</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paolo
Bacigalupi</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>diversity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mark Harvey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>A Land Out of Time</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tweeti Blancett</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gloria Flora</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom Bell</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil
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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16410">        <title>November Surprise</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16410</link>        <description>Ray Ring’s cover story on the libertarian stealth
campaign to put "takings" initiatives on Western ballots is the
biggest untold political story of the year</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Greg Hanscom</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Land Use and
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                    <dc:subject>Elections</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>November ballot</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Election Day</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land use</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>planning regulations</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>takings issues</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>libertarian movement</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Measure 37</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political
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                    <dc:subject>development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Defenders of Wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>TV ads</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:34:20Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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particularly about clean energy and water conservation</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Communities in Transition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rocky Mountains</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>changing communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>demographics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Californication</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water use</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water supply</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>coal-fired power plants</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>air quality</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Magic Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Denver</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salt Lak</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:33:38Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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become California-Great Basin correspondent; Western Slope
Environmental Resource Conference and North Fork River Improvement
Association hold annual meetings; visitors; "secretary" Bruce
Babbitt</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Greg Hanscom, Betsy Marston, Michelle Nijhuis and Jodi
Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>High Country News</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dear Friends</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paonia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Matt
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                    <dc:subject>Laura Paskus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>WSERC</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grassroots groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservation movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chaco Sandals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>North Fork
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                    <dc:subject>North Fork River Improvement Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Robert
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keeping close to the ground, but for this special issue, we look at
the energy boom in the West from a global perspective</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Greg Hanscom</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Country News</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ed Marston</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Matt Jenkins</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rebecca Clarren</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tim Westby</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jennie Lay</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Allen Best</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Laura Paskus</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>renewable energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Powder River Basin</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:06Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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Choice Awards for HCN stories; thanks to Mark
Lellouch and Alison Davis; visitors</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Greg Hanscom and Jodi Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>High Country News</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dear Friends</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paonia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>holiday parties</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Matt Jenkins</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Michelle Nijhuis</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Eliza
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                    <dc:subject>High Country News articles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>newspaper stories</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>marketing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alison Davis</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>MBA-Nonprofit Connection</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mark Lellouch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sue Matthes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sandy</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:54Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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