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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/nature-fierce-and-not-so-pretty">        <title>Nature fierce and not so pretty</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/nature-fierce-and-not-so-pretty</link>        <description>Spend enough time around a bird feeder, and you’ll realize that nature is
less like a poetic cartoon and more like a gritty crime novel by someone like
Elmore Leonard.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Dennis Hinkamp</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>anglers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public lands access</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hikers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>motorized recreation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mountain bikers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wilderness and Roadless Release Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-09-27T20:25:14Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-cheer-for-interior-secretary-salazars-new-approach">        <title>A cheer for Interior Secretary Salazar's new approach</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-cheer-for-interior-secretary-salazars-new-approach</link>        <description>Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is not to blame for the oil and gas industry’s economic problems</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Thomas Power</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Ken Salazar</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>recession</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:50:13Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16146">        <title>Energy company stakes out wildlife refuge</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16146</link>        <description>Yates Petroleum Co. plans to drill two gas wells in New
Mexico’s Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wildlife Refuges</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yates Petroleum Co.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy
industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas wells</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife refuges</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bitter Lake
National Wildlife Refuge</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paul Tashjian</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rare species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling permits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>well pa</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:57:09Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15876">        <title>Forest Service greases the skids for oil and gas</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15876</link>        <description>The Forest Service wants to create a new type of
"categorical exclusion" to make it easier for oil and gas drilling
projects to be approved without environmental study or public
input</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Emma Brown</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wayde Schafer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Grassland</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Club</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Environmental Policy Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>categorical</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sierra</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling applications</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas permits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dakota Prairie</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>exclusions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Skip Underwood</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fe</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:29Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15334">        <title>Whose rules rule on Otero Mesa?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15334</link>        <description>New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is fighting to keep the
oil and gas industry away from Otero Mesa, but the federal
government is equally determined to let the drilling
begin</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laura Paskus</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Richardson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Otero Mesa</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas
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                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joanna Prokup</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Stephen
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                    <dc:subject>New Mexico Wilderness Alliance</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico Oil
Conservation Division</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:47Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15322">        <title>Energy without hypocrisy</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15322</link>        <description>Natural gas is a wonderful thing, but our need for it does
not outweigh our responsibility to the land</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Natural gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas heat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas wells</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hypocrisy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>renewable energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jennie Lay</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas development</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:40Z</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/277/14815">        <title>Following the Ancient Roads</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/277/14815</link>        <description>On a 10-day walk through the northwestern New Mexico
desert, the author follows an ancient road that leads him from
silent Indian ruins into noisy, modern gas fields</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Craig Childs</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ruins</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chaco Canyon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chaco culture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ancient Puebloan culture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Anasazi</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ancient Indian roads</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ruins</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>archaeology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas
industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas wells</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas production</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>petroglyphs</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:57:47Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/270/14623">        <title>Gas well slated for state park</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/270/14623</link>        <description>Energen Resources Corp. wants to put a gas well on Navajo
State Park in Colorado, near Navajo Lake</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Joshua Zaffos</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Parks and Monuments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>State Parks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Navajo State Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Navajo Lake</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil
and gas development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>well pads</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Juan
Citizens Alliance</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mark Pearson</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:56:37Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/266/14501">        <title>Proposed wilderness on the auction block</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/266/14501</link>        <description>A list of the wilderness inventory areas and
citizens’ wilderness proposal areas being offered for oil and
gas leasing by the BLM includes lands in New Mexico, Wyoming,
Colorado and Utah</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wilderness Areas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness inventory areas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>citizens’
wilderness proposal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Utah</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Land Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:55:57Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/266/14492">        <title>Lost in the wilderness of power politics</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/266/14492</link>        <description>The kind of democratic dialogue that creates viable
wilderness proposals is impossible in the current wilderness of
power politics</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wilderness Legislation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wilderness Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Land Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lynn Scarlett</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rebecca Watson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and
gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush energy policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>citizen
activism</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:55:53Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/303/15685">        <title>Industry walks a fuzzy line between preservation and extortion</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/303/15685</link>        <description>EnCana Oil and Gas offers to pay for offsite mitigation in
Wyoming in exchange for intensive drilling rights in the Jonah
Field</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Whitney Royster</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>EnCana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jonah Field</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wil</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grouse</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dave Freudenthal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jeff Johnson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>well pads</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>directional drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sage</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Peter Aengst</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>offsite mitigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Don Simpson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pronghorn</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land preservation</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-04-09T19:07:33Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/articles/17822">        <title>An ancient place to wonder about our survival</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/articles/17822</link>        <description>Andy Gulliford delights in the vast Canyon of the Ancients
National Monument-- a living museum subject to increased gas
drilling.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Andy Gulliford</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>President Bill Clinton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>national monuments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>archaeology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National monuments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Andy Gulliford</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pueblo Indians</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:40:24Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/329/16514">        <title>When can the BLM say 'no'?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/329/16514</link>        <description>BLM and Forest Service officials say they have little
power to prevent drilling in an area once it’s been
OK’d for leasing, but critics say the government simply
refuses to use its power</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson</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>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy
policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Duane Spencer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Miguel River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling protests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John
Leshy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clinton environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mark Rey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Agriculture Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Christie Achenbach</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grand
Staircase-Esca</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-30T18:50:32Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16178">        <title>U.S. Department of Energy elbows in on Clean Water Act</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16178</link>        <description>The federal Energy Department and the state of Wyoming
have challenged Montana’s plan to establish pollution
controls for coalbed methane wells</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Sarah Gilman</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coalbed methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wastewater</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Marge West</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water
pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Powder River Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas
wells</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pumping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Opper</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana Department of Environmental
Quality</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana Board of Environmental Review</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Department of
En</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-12-15T17:24:37Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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