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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.9/how-the-gray-wolf-lost-its-endangered-status-and-how-enviros-helped">        <title>How the gray wolf lost its endangered status -- and how enviros helped</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.9/how-the-gray-wolf-lost-its-endangered-status-and-how-enviros-helped</link>        <description>A strategic miscalculation by environmental groups helped spur the delisting of gray wolves in Montana and Idaho.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Hal Herring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone wolf reintroduction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Northern Rockies wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kieran Suckling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>elk population</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolf delisting</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-06-06T19:37:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.9/the-cost-of-righteousness">        <title>The cost of righteousness</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.9/the-cost-of-righteousness</link>        <description>Has some environmentalists' refusal to compromise helped cause the delisting of wolves in Montana and Idaho?</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>wildlife management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kieran Suckling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolf delisting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wolf reintroduction</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-06-06T19:36:32Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.18/conservation-for-the-adrenaline-crowd">        <title>Conservation for the adrenaline crowd</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.18/conservation-for-the-adrenaline-crowd</link>        <description>Can the Red Bull generation of outdoor recreationists get serious about saving the planet?</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Terray Sylvester</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Generation Y</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>outdoor recreationists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mountain bikers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Maroon Corps</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>skiers</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-31T20:00:11Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.8/the-west-dissected">        <title>The West dissected</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.8/the-west-dissected</link>        <description>The Environmental Working Group and other organizations have released detailed studies of the West along the lines of Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Report Card.  
Also: The economic stimulus package has money for Western national parks and monuments.
</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>renewable energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Obama economic stimulus package</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Audubon Society</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>State of the Rockies Report Card</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental Working Group</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:27:02Z</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/wotr/environmentalists-better-learn-that-compromise-is">        <title>Environmentalists must learn to compromise</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/environmentalists-better-learn-that-compromise-is</link>        <description>Environmentalists opposed to desalination plants are indulging in wishful thinking, because conservation is not enough to provide the arid West with water during a drought.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jonathan Parkinson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water conservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Surfrider</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sierra Club</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California water supply</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Desalination</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drought</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Diego Coastkeeper</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Poseidon Resources</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:32:05Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/333/16656">        <title>Dear friends</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/333/16656</link>        <description>HCN board meeting in Missoula, Mont.;
visitors; correction</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>High Country News</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dear Friends</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paonia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High
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                    <dc:subject>hcn.org</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Web sites</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paolo
Bacigalupi</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>diversity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mark Harvey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>A Land Out of Time</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tweeti Blancett</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gloria Flora</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom Bell</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil
and gas</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:35:49Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/320/16230">        <title>Dear friends</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/320/16230</link>        <description>Matt Jenkins leaves the HCN office to
become California-Great Basin correspondent; Western Slope
Environmental Resource Conference and North Fork River Improvement
Association hold annual meetings; visitors; "secretary" Bruce
Babbitt</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Greg Hanscom, Betsy Marston, Michelle Nijhuis and Jodi
Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>High Country News</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dear Friends</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paonia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Matt
Jenkins</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Laura Paskus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>WSERC</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grassroots groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservation movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chaco Sandals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>North Fork
of the Gunnison</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>North Fork River Improvement Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Robert
Lun</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:33:28Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16144">        <title>Snowy middle ground</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16144</link>        <description>Wilderness advocates and snowmobile enthusiasts are
working together in Montana to find enough room in the landscape to
accommodate both their passions</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Recreation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Off-Road Vehicles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wilderness Areas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>snowmobile access</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Theodore Kaczynski</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ponderosa Snow Warriors</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>snowmobile groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray
Smith</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Helena National Forest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana Snowmobile Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana Wilderness Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Gatchell</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alan Brown</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>c</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:57:07Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/315/16085">        <title>Judge orders litigating enviros to pony up</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/315/16085</link>        <description>A federal judge orders three environmental groups to post
a $100,000 bond while their appeal of a logging project goes
forward</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Brett Wilkison</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judge Donald Molloy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging
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                    <dc:subject>timber harvest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>9th Circuit Court</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ellen
Engstedt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana Wood Products Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Andy Stahl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest
Service Employees for Environmental Ethics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Michael Garrity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alliance for</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:49Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/297/15493">        <title>So-called 'peace treaty' won't save the Rio
Grande</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/297/15493</link>        <description>Environmentalists made a mistake when they settled with
the city of Albuquerque over water use on the Middle Rio Grande in
New Mexico</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lisa Robert</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Lawsuits And Water Rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Water lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rio Grande</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Juan-Chama diversion</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>irrigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water use</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>silvery minnow</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Reclamation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:36Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/297/15482">        <title>Oil and gas opponents will have to move faster</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/297/15482</link>        <description>The Bureau of Land Management is shortening the amount of
time that citizens and environmental groups in Wyoming and Utah
will have to protest oil and gas leases</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>citizen protests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming
Outdoor Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bruce Pendery</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public lands management</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:34Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15438">        <title>Surprise bequest to protect Columbia Gorge</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15438</link>        <description>The Friends of the Columbia Gorge, a small conservation
group based in Portland, Ore., has received a $4 million bequest
from Norman Yeon</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michael Milstein</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Friends of the Columbia Gorge</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nancy Russell</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Norman
Yeon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Baptiste Yeon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bequests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land preservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservation
groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:20Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/264/14438">        <title>Getting high in class</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/264/14438</link>        <description>Bruce Gordon started his nonprofit EcoFlight in Aspen,
Colo., to take kids out of the classroom and let them see
environmental issues from above, in his Cessna 210</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Josh Garrett-Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EcoFlight</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lighthawk</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>education</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>airplanes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pilots</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cessna 210</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bruce
Gordon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:55:36Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/264/14421">        <title>Save the middle ground: Hug a radical</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/264/14421</link>        <description>Even though it’s true that without the radical
extremes, there would be no middle ground, to save wilderness in
the Bush era, environmental hard-liners need to ease up on
consensus deals</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Greg Hanscom</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Consensus groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental
radicals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing issues</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness preservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness legislation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Owyhee County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>collaborative
efforts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:55:31Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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