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    <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/279/14903">        <title>Buying ecological leverage</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/279/14903</link>        <description>High Country News interviews Bill Hedden of the Grand
Canyon Trust about northern Arizona’s Kane and Two Mile
ranches, which the Trust and the Conservation Fund have an
exclusive option to purchase</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kane Ranch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Two Mile Ranch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Hedden</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Conservation
Fund</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grand Canyon Trust</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>private land conservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing
leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grand Canyon National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paria Canyon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kaibab Plateau</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Buckskin Gulch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:58:21Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/278/14865">        <title>Of global warming and White House elephants</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/278/14865</link>        <description>The Bush administration needs to start dealing with global
climate change, and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may help
to point the way</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jon Margolis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Elected
Officials</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arnold Schwarzenegger</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John McCain</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joseph Lieberman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Senate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House of Representatives</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kyoto Protocol</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental
Protection Agency</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jumbo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jimmy Durante</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:58:09Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/272/14693">        <title>Die, baby harp seal! It's time for environmentalism to
get ugly</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/272/14693</link>        <description>Environmental groups’ calendar portrayals of the
beleaguered harp seal are too pretty and too hackneyed to convince
humans that the race must see beyond its own wants if it is to hold
off the end of nature</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lydia Millet</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered Species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>harp seal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nature
calendars</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:56:59Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/272/14692">        <title>The environment's 'most durable foe'</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/272/14692</link>        <description>Historian Steven C. Schulte’s new book, Wayne
Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West, portrays the chair
of the House Interior Committee and the environmental
movement’s "most durable foe" as a fair but rigid
representative who, surprisingly, joc</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Joshua Zaffos</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Elected Officials</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wayne Aspinall</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House Interior Committee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Steven C. Schulte</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:56:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/272/14676">        <title>Dear friends</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/272/14676</link>        <description>Avalanches in Telluride, heat wave in Paonia;
congratulations to Ed and Betsy Marston for John Wade Award; Ken
Sleight gets Lifetime Achievement Award at 22nd Annual Public
Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene; Betsy Loyless,
keynoter at the co</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Greg Hanscom, Betsy Marston</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>avalanche</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Telluride</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paonia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ed Marston</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Betsy Marston</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Wade</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ken Sleight</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>law</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conference</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Betsy
Loyless</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:56:54Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/300/15583">        <title>In a run-down neighborhood, there's lots of love</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/300/15583</link>        <description>In a hardscrabble neighborhood in northeast Denver,
Lorraine Granado fights for environmental justice</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julie Dugdale</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>hydrochloric acid</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>chemical spills</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>lead</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lorraine Granado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>justice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Protection Agenc</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Superfund sites</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Green Justice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cross Community Coalition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Socio-Economics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>advocacy groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Asarco</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>poisoning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vulcan Chemicals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Globeville</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>community organizers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pollution</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-02-04T17:55:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/268/14552">        <title>Tipping the scales</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/268/14552</link>        <description>A right-wing coup is under way in the nation’s
courts, which George W. Bush is stacking with anti-environmental
judges, and the impacts on Western conservation issues are not
going to be pretty</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Earthjustice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>judges</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>judicial fundamentalism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Clinton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>H</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>right wing politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservation groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>court system</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judicial system</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>lifetime</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal judges</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-03-12T22:47:18Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/260/14309">        <title>One good example: The publisher</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/260/14309</link>        <description>A.L. "Butch" Alford of the Lewiston, Idaho, Morning
Tribune is a good example of a publisher who truly believes in
independent journalism</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>reporting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>publishing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>media</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alford</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>A.L.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>journalism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Butch Alford</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Media</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Morning Tribune</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lewiston</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>newspapers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:14:00Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/353/17194">        <title>Border restoration’s odd couple</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/353/17194</link>        <description>In southwestern Arizona, the U.S. Border Patrol is working
with Cocopah Indians and environmentalists to restore a degraded,
crime-ridden wetland called Hunters Hole.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Morgan Heim</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>wetlands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hunters Hole</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environment &amp; Ecosystems – Wetlands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>illegal immigrants</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>restoration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cocopah Indians</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>border issues</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Border Patrol</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-27T22:32:38Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/337/16753">        <title>Confessions of a Methane Floozy</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/337/16753</link>        <description>An environmentalist who owns royalty interest in New
Mexico oil and gas wells heads down to the San Juan Basin to talk
to rancher Tweeti Blancett, driller Tom Dugan and others about the
moral complexities inherent in Americans’ energy
use</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Hannah Nordhaus</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>El Paso pipeline</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gas Company</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>well pads</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Juan Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ozone levels</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hannah Nordhaus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas field royalties</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tight sand formations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dam</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coalbed Methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>road building</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coalbed methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>El Paso Natural</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>groundwater</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-01T23:25:57Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/366/17577">        <title>Bush brings more green into the green movement</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/366/17577</link>        <description>The Bush administration has been good for environmental
groups, at least when it comes to money and membership
numbers.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wise use groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fund raising</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-10-27T19:53:37Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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