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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16166">        <title>Who’s afraid of the big bad dog?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16166</link>        <description>The writer asks which animals are more dangerous: wolves
or dogs?</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Gail Binkly</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:43:57Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/327/16446">        <title>Playing God in suburbia</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/327/16446</link>        <description>Is it really true that the U.S. has no choice but to
employ a harsh form of triage in deciding which endangered species
should live, and which must die?</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Greg Hanscom</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rob Roy Ramey II</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ambulances</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EMTs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>medics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>triage</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>accidents</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>scientists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Preble’s meadow jumping mouse</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>subspecies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal government</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental issues</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environment</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:34:33Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/324/16359">        <title>'Miss Fish Hatchery'</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/324/16359</link>        <description>Wildlife conservation biologist Jenn Logan has a soft spot
for the less-glamorous endangered species like razorback suckers
and boreal toads</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Scott Gates</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jenn Logan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered
species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>boreal toad</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>razorback sucker</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>roundtail chub</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>redbelly
dace</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rare fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>threatened species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>frogs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>minnows</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Aquatic Species Restoration Facility</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alamosa</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:34:05Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16189">        <title>The trouble with the Endangered Species Act is
us</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16189</link>        <description>The Endangered Species Act isn’t broken; we just
don’t like to enforce it</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ted Williams</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:33:11Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16109">        <title>The difficulties of cohabitation</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16109</link>        <description>Despite its problems and failures – many of them
arising from the conflict between the United States’ growing
population and our declining wildlife habitat – the
Endangered Species Act is a necessary law</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Communities in
Transition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard M. Nixon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>population growth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arizona population</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nevada population</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>demographics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tony Davis</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ecosystems</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>plants</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>critical habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental
laws</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:55Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16108">        <title>High Noon for Habitat</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16108</link>        <description>In Riverside County, Calif., the conflict between the
Endangered Species Act’s critical habitat rule and the
West’s booming, sprawling, growth-driven economy comes to a
head</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Land Use and
Planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>critical habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>real estate
development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>growth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sprawl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San
Jacinto Valley crownscale</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered plants</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>multi-species habitat
conservation plans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>threatened species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:55Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16119">        <title>Critical Habitat: The Inside Story</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16119</link>        <description>A behind-the-scenes look at the struggle over critical
habitat reveals the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be an agency
at war with itself</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Marine Fisheries Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Smith</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Sidle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>critical habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Carl Couret</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Carter administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ne</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>James Watt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Reagan administration</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:57:00Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/329/16525">        <title>Endangered Species 101 — in poetry</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/329/16525</link>        <description>The Dire Elegies laments the plight of
North America's endangered wildlife in poetic detail</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jennie Lay</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Poetry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-30T19:17:02Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/324/16369">        <title>Making room for wolves</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/324/16369</link>        <description>In the anthology Comeback Wolves, 50
Western writers talk about the complex emotional – and
practical – responses evoked by the return of this iconic
predator</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Comeback Wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gary Wockner</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gregory McNamee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>SueEllen
Campbell</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Laura Paskus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jana Richman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>M. John Fayhee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolf
reintroduction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>predators</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mountain Gazette</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Barry Lopez</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Of Wolves
and Men</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>B. Frank</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wild animals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-12T03:07:16Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/324/16357">        <title>Mexican wolves face a rocky road to recovery</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/324/16357</link>        <description>The recent deaths of 10 wolves in eastern Arizona are a
wrenching example of everything that has gone wrong with the
troubled Mexican wolf recovery program</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Allison Gerfin</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mexican wolf</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hon Dah pack</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>White Mountain Apaches</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolf
recovery program</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>northern Rockies gray
wolf</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fish and Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Victoria Fox</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Curt Mack</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife
biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Morgart</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolf reintroduction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public lands
grazing</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-12-08T23:26:42Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/323/16341">        <title>The life of an enigmatic seabird</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/323/16341</link>        <description>In Rare Bird, author Maria Mudd Ruth
pursues the mystery of the Pacific Northwest’s elusive
marbled murrelet</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Stephen J. Lyons</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Birds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Maria Mudd Ruth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ornithology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>threatened birds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>old growth forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pacific Northwest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>seabirds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Big Basin Redwoods
State Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Douglas fir</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>species recovery</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-11T23:28:41Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16177">        <title>Spotted owl or red herring?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16177</link>        <description>Although logging has declined drastically in the Pacific
Northwest, it’s not necessarily the fault of the Endangered
Species Act or the northern spotted owl.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Kathie Durban</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Logging Companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>critical habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>northern
spotted owl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public land logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>timber
industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Forest Management Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>threatened species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rare
wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>national forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fish and Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George
Weyerhaeuser</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-12-15T17:07:53Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16176">        <title>Reality Check</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16176</link>        <description>Misinformation and exaggeration abound in the debate over
the Endangered Species Act’s critical habitat
provisions</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis and Greg Hanscom</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>critical habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Brian Kennedy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House Resources Committee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Joaquin kit fox</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>northern spotted owl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tony Davis</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kathie Durbin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Steven Webster</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Florida manatee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Florida Marine Contractors Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>1899
Rivers a</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-12-15T16:58:21Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16174">        <title>ESA talks end in stalemate</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16174</link>        <description>A working group of 23 experts convened by the nonprofit
Keystone Center could not reach consensus over how to reform the
Endangered Species Act’s critical habitat
provisions</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>critical habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Keystone Center</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Kostyack</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Wildlife Federation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House
Resources Committee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bob Irvin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Defenders of Wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sean Skaggs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jam</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-12-15T16:46:01Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/327/16454">        <title>A few scientific definitions</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/327/16454</link>        <description>Terms commonly used in endangered species discussions
– species, subspecies and distinct population segment –
are explained</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Utah prairie dog</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Biodiversity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>jaguar</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>experimental populations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>northern</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>distinct population segments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>protected species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>whopping crane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grizzly bears</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>spotted owl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>spotted owls</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gray wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>subspecies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mexican</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Fish and Wildlife</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-12-15T20:02:35Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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