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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.3/conservative-farmers-agree-to-tax-those-who-deplete-groundwater">        <title>Farmers agree to tax those who deplete groundwater</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.3/conservative-farmers-agree-to-tax-those-who-deplete-groundwater</link>        <description>Amid drought and climate change in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, farmers vote for a new approach to rein in their overpumping of groundwater. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>irrigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>farm</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Luis Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>taxes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>aquifer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>groundwater</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drought</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>agriculture</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2013-04-23T16:32:03Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.3/drought-forces-a-new-era-of-agricultural-water-conservation">        <title>Drought forces a new era of agricultural water conservation</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.3/drought-forces-a-new-era-of-agricultural-water-conservation</link>        <description>Whether converting open ditches into pipelines or fallowing fields, farmers and ranchers in the West are being forced to change the ways they use water as climate-induced drought  tightens its grip.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>irrigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Luis Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>agriculture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>groundwater</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2013-02-19T15:16:53Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.2/in-a-rural-colorado-valley-old-fashioned-print-news-lives-on">        <title>In a rural Colorado valley, old-fashioned print news lives on</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.2/in-a-rural-colorado-valley-old-fashioned-print-news-lives-on</link>        <description>The Saguache Crescent prints on an ancient letterpress machine, no computers necessary.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jonathan Thompson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Dean Coombs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Luis Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Linotype</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>letterpress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Saguache Crescent</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2013-02-27T19:50:17Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/energy-exporters-stay-out-of-the-san-luis-valley">        <title>Energy exporters: Stay out of the San Luis Valley</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/energy-exporters-stay-out-of-the-san-luis-valley</link>        <description>Xcel and Tri-State have overly ambitious plans for massive solar energy development in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ceal Smith</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Tri-State Generation and Transmission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Xcel Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Luis Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>power transmission lines</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>microgrid</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>small-scale solar energy development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Luis Valley Renewable Communities Alliance</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>solar power</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-06-17T15:41:06Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/350/17112">        <title>Fear in the Valley</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/350/17112</link>        <description>Following a high-profile raid by Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, undocumented farmworkers in Colorado’s San Luis
Valley live in fear</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Mack</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Illegal immigrants</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>farmworkers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Luis Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ICE raids</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-07-21T21:54:27Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16190">        <title>At home in the valley</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16190</link>        <description>In The San Luis Valley: Sand Dunes and Sandhill
Cranes, Susan Tweit explores a remarkable Colorado
landscape</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Renee Guillory</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Human Beings and Nature</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Susan Tweit</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Glenn Oakley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Luis Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Great Sand
Dunes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Monte Vista Wildlife Refuge</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Juan Mountains</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sangre de
Cristo mountains</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sandhill cranes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nature writers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>desert places</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>photographers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:33:12Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16143">        <title>The Latest Bounce</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16143</link>        <description>White Pine County, Nev., seeks federal help to fight Las
Vegas groundwater grab; fired workers suddenly regain jobs at
National Renewable Energy Laboratory; marijuana is
Washington’s No. 8 agricultural product</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>White Pine County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nevada</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Las Vegas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>groundwater
pumping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal preserves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Great Basin National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Great Sand
Dunes National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Luis Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Renewable Energy Laboratory</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Golden</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>budget</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>f</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:57:06Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/259/14273">        <title>Reweaving the river</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/259/14273</link>        <description>Local ranchers and farmers in southern Colorado’s
San Luis Valley are working to restore the Alamosa River, site of
the infamous Summitville mine cyanide spill</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Hal Clifford</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alamosa River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Luis Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mining pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Summitville</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Conejos County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>river restoration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Capulin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:13:50Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/347/17038">        <title>A poet’s novel of the San Luis Valley</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/347/17038</link>        <description>In Rise, Do Not Be Afraid, poet Aaron Abeyta explores the
lives of the people who lived and loved in the long-lost town of
Santa Rita in Colorado’s remote San Luis Valley</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Annie Dawid</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>San Luis Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gabriel Garcia Marquez</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>magical realism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rise</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hispanic life</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fiction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>first novels</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Do Not Be Afraid</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado history</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western culture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Aaron Abeyta</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-06T19:57:55Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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