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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.2/can-snowshoe-hares-adapt-to-climate-change">        <title>Can snowshoe hares outrace climate change?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.2/can-snowshoe-hares-adapt-to-climate-change</link>        <description>The seasonal coat changes of snowshoe hares may provide wildlife biologists with clues about how wild animals evolve in response to climate change.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Hillary Rosner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>evolution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>assisted migration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>habitat changes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Scott Mills</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hot Times</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>snowshoe hares</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animal seasonal coat changes</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-02-13T14:56:46Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.2/john-mionczynski-naturalist-accordionist-bigfoot-expert">        <title>John Mionczynski: naturalist, accordionist, and Bigfoot expert</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.2/john-mionczynski-naturalist-accordionist-bigfoot-expert</link>        <description>In rural Wyoming, naturalist John Mionczynski plays piano, restores motorcycles, studies wildlife and tracks down evidence for the mysterious creature known as Sasquatch.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Emilene Ostlind</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Mioncynzki</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jeff Meldrum</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sasquatch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cryptozoology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming Red Desert</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>naturalists</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-02-08T21:39:37Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.2/can-animals-evolve-quickly-enough-to-survive-global-warming">        <title>Can animals evolve quickly enough to survive global warming?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.2/can-animals-evolve-quickly-enough-to-survive-global-warming</link>        <description>What can rapid evolution in response to climate change teach us about managing nature?</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Nijhuis </dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>evolution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>seasonal coat changes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>assisted migration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Scott Mills</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hot Times</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>snowshoe hares</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>threatened wildlife</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-02-01T17:23:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.15/calling-all-science-nerds">        <title>Calling all science nerds </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.15/calling-all-science-nerds</link>        <description>Across the country, "citizen scientist" volunteers help professional researchers by gathering data on wildlife species, from moose to hummingbirds.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>hummingbirds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Isle Royale moose</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jean Palumbo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife surveys</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Vucetich</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>natural history</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Citizen scientist</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>volunteers</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-08-31T17:26:39Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.14/invasion-of-the-feral-pigs">        <title>Invasion of the feral pigs</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.14/invasion-of-the-feral-pigs</link>        <description>Feral pigs are invading New Mexico and other Western states, but biologists are working hard to stop them. 
</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>wild hogs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animal trapping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wildlife Services</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ron Jones</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animal control</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Justin Stevenson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Feral pigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nuisance animals</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-08-24T15:16:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.3/collateral-damage">        <title>Collateral damage</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.3/collateral-damage</link>        <description>T.C. Boyle's new novel,  When the Killing's Done, examines the awkward way humans interact with nature and with one another.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michael Engelhard </dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>T.C. Boyle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animal rights movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>When the Killing's Done</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fiction, novels</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-03-28T15:18:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.17/the-birds-and-the-bee-tle-s">        <title>The birds and the bee(tle)s</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.17/the-birds-and-the-bee-tle-s</link>        <description>A controversial tamarisk control program is shut down over worries that it threatens rare southwestern willow flycatchers.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rachel Zurer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>riparian habitat restoration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tamarisk</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered birds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tamarisk leaf beetles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>southwestern willow flycatchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>invasive plants</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-10-14T15:51:44Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/when-doing-the-right-thing-gets-complicated">        <title>When doing the right thing gets complicated</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/when-doing-the-right-thing-gets-complicated</link>        <description>Do we have the right to kill invasive barred owls and their hybrid offspring, even if it will save endangered spotted owls?</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Carla A. Wise</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>barred owls</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>old-growth forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Spotted owls</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sparred owls</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:55:46Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.20/how-wild-is-a-managed-wolf">        <title>How wild is a managed wolf?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.20/how-wild-is-a-managed-wolf</link>        <description>In an age when wolves are radio-collared and tracked everywhere they go, can they still be considered wild animals?</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>George Sibley</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Northern Rockies gray wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolf reintroduction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>radio-collared wildlife</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:55:28Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16936">        <title>Wolves have a reputation that’s larger than
life</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16936</link>        <description>Some hunters are blaming the Big Bad Wolf for a decline in
the northern Yellowstone elk herd, but Dan Whipple points out that
recent weather – and Montana hunting policy – are more
likely to be responsible.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Dan Whipple</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Hunting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Threatened and endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>predators</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>northern Yellowstone elk
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                    <dc:subject>animal populations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>weather</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana
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                    <dc:subject>Ed Bangs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drought</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Northern Yellowstone
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                    <dc:subject>Oikos</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Michigan Tech
University</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joh</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:43:00Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/350/17114">        <title>Throwing raptors into flight</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/350/17114</link>        <description>Rob Domenech bands eagles, studies hawks and also works
with at-risk kids</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Becky Lomax</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>golden</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rob Domenech</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Raptor View Research Institute</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>at-risk kids</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>eagles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>birds</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-07-21T21:42:02Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/16395">        <title>Waiting for the tide</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/16395</link>        <description>In The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch’s
debut novel, a 13-year-old boy in the Pacific Northwest begins
finding all kinds of strange sea creatures, and wonders if "maybe
the earth is trying to tell us something."</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Annie Dawid</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Human Beings and Nature</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Lynch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Highest Tide</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>first novels</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>children in
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                    <dc:subject>coming of age stories</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pacific Northwest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sea life</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>marine
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                    <dc:subject>Squid Boy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Skookumchuck Bay</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Olympia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:34:16Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/322/16314">        <title>Heard around the West</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/322/16314</link>        <description>What makes Mormon crickets run; Cactus Rescue Crew; tree
murder; Dick Cheney shoot-alike; gun dealers in the West; Dakota
Sioux Scrabble</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Betsy Marston</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Humor</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western odd news</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mormon crickets</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>entomologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Reno Gazette-Journal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Patrick Lorch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cricket swarms</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>insect migrations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>insect behavior</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tucson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arizona</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>desert</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>saguaro</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cactus transplanting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cactus Rescue Crew</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Margaret
Livingstone</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:33:53Z</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
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                    <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/312/15974">        <title>BLM boosts winter drilling</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/312/15974</link>        <description>The BLM wants to allow oil and gas companies to drill near
Pinedale, Wyo., in wintertime, and some conservationists think the
change may actually help declining mule deer populations</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Emma Brown</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Public Lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mule deer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>winter drilling bans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife
protection</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Questar</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Anschutz</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Shell</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ultra</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Deena McMullen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hall
Sawyer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western EcoSystems Technology Inc.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>directional
drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>well pads</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vern Stelter</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming Department of Game and
Fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pe</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:12Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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