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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.8/the-delights-of-urban-wilderness">        <title>The delights of urban wilderness</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.8/the-delights-of-urban-wilderness</link>        <description>The sometimes-scruffy remnants of woodland that edge our urban neighborhoods have psychological as well as ecological value.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>sediment dumps</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>children and nature</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Los Angeles County Flood Control District</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Southern California ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams and water projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coast live oaks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Urban woodlands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Camron Stone</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-05-09T21:25:41Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.5/generosity-of-voice-and-heart-a-review-of-wild-from-lost-to-found-on-the-pacific-crest-trail">        <title>Generosity of voice and heart: A review of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.5/generosity-of-voice-and-heart-a-review-of-wild-from-lost-to-found-on-the-pacific-crest-trail</link>        <description>Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild describes her arduous trek along the Pacific Crest Trail as she seeks to recover from life-changing grief.  </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Melissa Hart</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>autobiography</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>backpacking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cheryl Strayed</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nonfiction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>memoir</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-04-11T14:30:10Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.1/the-logging-town-of-darrington-wash.-fights-to-save-a-wilderness-lookout">        <title>The logging town of Darrington, Wash., fights to save a fire lookout </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.1/the-logging-town-of-darrington-wash.-fights-to-save-a-wilderness-lookout</link>        <description>A lawsuit raises questions about how far environmentalists should go to keep wilderness 'untrammeled.'</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Nathan Rice</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>recreation economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Glacier Peak Wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Suiattle River Road</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>North Cascades National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>trail maintenance</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>washed out roads</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Green Mountain lookout</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>consensus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>backpacking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rural life</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging towns</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>flood damage</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Campaign for America's Wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington state Wilderness Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>collaboration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>categorical exclusions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fire lookouts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Civilian Conservation Corps</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>outdoor economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>small towns</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wild Sky Wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wilderness Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness road repair</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Darrington, Washington</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Register of Historic Places</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cascade Range</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public comment</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness helicopter flights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wilderness Watch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking trail repair</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>northern spotted owl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>marbled murrelet</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-01-25T15:49:59Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>ATV users</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Craig Childs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rural life</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Small towns</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>old-timers versus newcomers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>prejudice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>out-of-towners</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-12-21T18:40:53Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.11/a-fee-dodging-retiree-forces-a-national-forest-to-rethink-access-charges">        <title>A fee-dodging retiree forces a national forest to rethink access charges</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.11/a-fee-dodging-retiree-forces-a-national-forest-to-rethink-access-charges</link>        <description>A retired geophysicist named Jim Smith successfully challenges Arizona's Coconino National Forest on access fees.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Daniel Kraker</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>public land access fees</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Smith</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fee demo program</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Red Rock Pass</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>outdoor recreation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Land Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western Slope No Fee Coalition</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-07-06T14:33:07Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>nature writing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ken Lamberton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>river restoration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tohono O'odham</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Santa Cruz River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dry River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>geography</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nonfiction</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-06-09T21:30:37Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/finding-place">        <title>Finding place</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/finding-place</link>        <description>A wilderness ranger has spent the last 14 years coming to intimately know -- and love -- a remarkable corner of Alaska.
</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tim Lydon</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Alaska Legislature</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>brown bears</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alaska glaciers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>inholding development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forest rangers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolves</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-03-08T22:40:23Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.17/no-walk-in-the-park">        <title>No walk in the park</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.17/no-walk-in-the-park</link>        <description>In his compassionate, understated memoir, Walking Home, Lynn Schooler hikes across rugged Southeast Alaska.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michael Engelhard</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>autobiography</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lynn Schooler</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>divorce</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Walking Home</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Southeast Alaska</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>male middle age</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>memoir</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-10-26T17:43:04Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/notes-from-the-underground-the-secret-life-of-mushrooms">        <title>Notes from the underground: The secret life of mushrooms</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/notes-from-the-underground-the-secret-life-of-mushrooms</link>        <description>It's been a great summer for hunting the West's wild mushrooms.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Bob Berwyn</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>botany</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wild mushrooms</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>identifying wild plants</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mycology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fungus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>edible mushrooms</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>chanterelles, boletes</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-02T17:17:16Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.19/the-kindness-of-hunters">        <title>The kindness of hunters</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.19/the-kindness-of-hunters</link>        <description>After a lifetime of despising and fearing guns, a woman is blindsided by the everyday kindness shown by two hunters. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Melissa Hart</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>prejudice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Melissa Hart</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>guns</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:55:31Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/solace-among-the-crazies">        <title>Solace among the Crazies</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/solace-among-the-crazies</link>        <description>A hike in Montana's Crazy Mountains eases the pain and worry of cancer treatments. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Joanne Wilke</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>chemotherapy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joanne Wilke</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Crazy Mountains</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cancer</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:55:19Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.16/books-for-lonely-times">        <title>Books for lonely times</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.16/books-for-lonely-times</link>        <description>When you're camped all alone in the wilderness, there is nothing like a book to bring you comfort.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Emma Brown</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>reading</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>books</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>family life</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>camping</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:59:00Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ronni Egan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>outdoor recreation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Great Old Broads for Wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Orrin Hatch</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:27:27Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14190">        <title>It’s time for ‘quiet recreationists’ to
speak up</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14190</link>        <description>Greg Hanscom tells unmotorized recreationists to stop the
infighting and join outdoor retailers in the fight for
wilderness.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Greg Hanscom</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Camping And Hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>outdoor retailers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>camping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>backpacking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biking</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:29:06Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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unpredictability of both the outdoors and childhood.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Alan Kesselheim</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>camping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>outdoors</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:29:01Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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