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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/saying-good-bye-to-the-ranch">        <title>Saying good-bye to the ranch</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/saying-good-bye-to-the-ranch</link>        <description>Four families cooperate on conservation easements in order to save a huge ranch in Colorado from development.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Kerry Brophy Lloyd</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>The Nature Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservation easements</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>eastern grasslands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Winship Ranch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>farmland preservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>shortgrass prairie</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cooperative conservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranching</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-15T16:35:45Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.22/stitching-habitat-together-across-public-and-private-lands">        <title>Stitching habitat together across public and private lands</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.22/stitching-habitat-together-across-public-and-private-lands</link>        <description>Migrating animals can't read "no trespassing" signs, so it’s up to human beings to try to find ways to connect wildlife corridors that crisscross public and privately owned lands.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>The Nature Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mike Stevens</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mule deer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>seasonal migration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana Legacy Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grand Teton National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Crown of the Continent</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho Fish and Game</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lava Lake Ranch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>landscape connectivity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>migratory birds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Conservation Fund</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>private land migration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming pronghorn</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone to Yukon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Malpai Borderlands Group</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife overpass</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>private property owners</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grizzly bears</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bison</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Blackfoot Challenge</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>private land conservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>elk</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservation easements</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>habitat connectivity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife biology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Green River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife migration corridors</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tess O’Sullivan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Brian and Kathleen Bean</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Bear Recovery Zone</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Taylor Lawrence</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Trust for Public Land</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Path of the Pronghorn</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Divide</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wildlife Conservation Society</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>illegal fences</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animal migration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pioneers Alliance</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-12-21T18:39:24Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.15/conservation-calculus">        <title>Conservation calculus</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.15/conservation-calculus</link>        <description>Energy companies in Wyoming's Jonah Field are funding habitat preservation, but no one seems to know how the wildlife's doing.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rebecca Huntington</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Encana Corp.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jonah Field</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rollin Sparrowe</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Nature Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservation easements</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BP America Production Co.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joseph Kiesecker</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sage grouse habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Upper Green River Valley Coalition</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-03T13:58:08Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.6/nonprofits-reap-the-profits">        <title>Nonprofits reap the profits  </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.6/nonprofits-reap-the-profits</link>        <description>Christine MacDonald takes on the unscrupulous executives who run big environmental groups in Green, Inc.: An Environmental Insider Reveals How a Good Cause Has Gone Bad. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Brian Park</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>The Nature Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>World Wildlife Fund</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Green Inc.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sierra Club</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Christine MacDonald</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental Defense Fund</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:04:26Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.15/crash-of-the-cottonwoods">        <title>Crash of the cottonwoods</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.15/crash-of-the-cottonwoods</link>        <description>Across the West, cottonwoods are dying, and no one is sure how to save these iconic trees.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Gisela Telis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>floodplains</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Nature Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cottonwoods</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gabrielle Katz</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Three Links Farm</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>river ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>groundwater pumping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Stewart Rood</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Pedro River</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:15:13Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15874">        <title>Toothy nuisance moves north</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15874</link>        <description>Nutria, destructive beaver-like mammals from South
America, are moving into the Skagit River Valley of northwestern
Washington, and some believe a warming climate is to
blame</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Emma Brown</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Weather</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rodents</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nutria</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>exotic wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rodents</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>introduced wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Skagit River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fur industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nuisance wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pamela Meacham</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>warming temperatures</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pacific
Northwest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Philip Mote</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climatologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Nature Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>trapping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>h</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:28Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15872">        <title>A move to make land trusts more accountable</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15872</link>        <description>The Land Trust Alliance hopes its new accreditation
program for land trusts will forestall the passage of federal
legislation designed to end the abuse of conservation
easements</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jennie Lay</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Land Use And Planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Land Trust Alliance</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservation easements</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land trust
accreditation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Martha Cochran</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Aspen Valley Land Trust</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington
Post</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Nature Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land trust abuses</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joint Committee on
Taxation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Internal Revenue Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tax breaks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado Open
La</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:27Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15433">        <title>Dear friends</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15433</link>        <description>Dave Foreman on "Nature’s Crisis" and what HCN is
doing wrong; kids these days; visitors; clarifications</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Greg Hanscom</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Dear Friends</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Country News</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paonia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dave
Foreman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Nature Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Death of Environmentalism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>First
Amendment</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>youth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>media</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>journalism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ana
Walzl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dan Walzl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jude Walzl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jerry Fabyanic</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clear Creek Courant</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>K</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:19Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/277/14828">        <title>Fighting for the Rocky Mountain Front: Montana rancher
Karl Rappold</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/277/14828</link>        <description>Montana rancher Karl Rappold is determined to save his
beloved Rocky Mountain Front from development by the oil and gas
industry</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ron Selden</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Karl Rappold</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rocky Mountain Front</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas
industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas wells</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Land Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gloria Flora</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lewis and Clark National Forest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Startech Energy
Inc.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Nature Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush environmental
policy</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:57:55Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/266/14511">        <title>Warm-water native fish are left out in the
cold</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/266/14511</link>        <description>A new study by a team of biologists shows little is being
done to save a dozen of the Southwest’s threatened and
endangered native fish species</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Mitch Tobin</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>threatened and endangered fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>native fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gila River
Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arizona</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>spikedace</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gila topminnow</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Public Employees for
Environmental Responsibility</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>PEER</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jeff Ruch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arizona State
University</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Nature Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>University of
Arizona</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:55:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16415">        <title>Saving open land — a taxing problem</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16415</link>        <description>In Missoula, Mont., and other Western communities,
activists search for the winning formula to pass new open-space
bonds in November</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Brianna Randall</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Elections</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Land Use and Planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Open space bonds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>elections</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land use and planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ballot measures</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>initiatives</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>taxes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Trust for Public Land</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Amanda
Smith</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Nature Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mill levies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property taxes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Karen
Messmer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>niche taxes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tim Raphael</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Great Outdoors Colorado Trust
Fund</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-21T22:27:10Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/304/15724">        <title>Island's pig problem pits animal-rights activists againstconservationists</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/304/15724</link>        <description>A plan to eradicate thousands of feral pigs from Southern
California’s Santa Cruz Island has animal rights activists up
in arms</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Barboza</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Parks And Monuments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wildlife
Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hunting/Trapping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Santa Cruz Island</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>feral pigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Channel Islands National
Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Nature Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park
Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kate Faulkner</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Prohunt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>In Defense of Animals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Elliot
Katz</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Santa Cruz Island fox</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animal rights movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunting</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-30T22:35:29Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15613">        <title>Private landowners become lords of the public estate</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15613</link>        <description>A landowner locks a gate on a road into Arizona’s
Aravaipa Canyon, highlighting an increasingly bitter debate over
access to public lands in the West</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Renee H. Guillory</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Access And Inholding</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Norma Tapia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Aravaipa Canyon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>private
property</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public access</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>inholdings</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>outdoor recreation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ORVs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Palmer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Graham County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arizona</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sal Palazzolo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arizona Game and Fish Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Nature Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Diane
Drobka</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-05-16T23:24:31Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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