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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/fracking-is-the-big-new-gun">        <title>Fracking is the big new gun</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/fracking-is-the-big-new-gun</link>        <description>Hydraulic fracturing is changing the energy industry -- and the entire nation -- in ways we’re only beginning to understand.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Randy Udall</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>black shales</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>new energy technology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>petroleum geology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fracking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Niobrara play</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bakken formation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental movement</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-29T17:55:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.22/protecting-wildlife-corridors-remains-more-theory-than-practice">        <title>Protecting wildlife corridors remains more theory than practice</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.22/protecting-wildlife-corridors-remains-more-theory-than-practice</link>        <description>There's a growing understanding of the scientific importance of wildlife migration corridors, but protecting them is a huge political challenge.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Mary Ellen Hannibal</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wildlands Network</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mule deer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>seasonal migration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming Fish and Game</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grizzly bears</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pinedale Anticline</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>elk</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Land Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Southern Great Plans Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>landscape connectivity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wildlife Conservation Society</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jonah Field</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rush Holt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ken Salazar</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming pronghorn</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone to Yukon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>private land migration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>private property owners</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>habitat mapping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>migratory birds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mark Gocke</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington Connected Landscapes Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>megalinkages of habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>private land conservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western Governors’ Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservation easements</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>habitat connectivity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife biology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Landscape Conservation Cooperatives</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife migration corridors</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Path of the Pronghorn</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bison</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kenyon Fields</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animal migration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife overpass</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Center for Large Landscape Connectivity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rob Ament</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-12-30T18:02:52Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.19/energy-succeeds-where-housing-developers-cant">        <title>Energy succeeds where housing developers can't</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.19/energy-succeeds-where-housing-developers-cant</link>        <description>As the West's housing boom fades, natural resource extraction surges, and a defunct housing development on the east side of Colorado Springs, Colo., may soon face drilling by Ultra Petroleum.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Sarah Gilman</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>energy boom</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>real estate bust</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Banning-Lewis Ranch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Front Range</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>real estate developments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ultra Petroleum</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>zoning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado Springs</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-11T20:16:28Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.18/blm-experiments-with-camouflage-to-hide-renewable-power-structures">        <title>BLM experiments with camouflage to hide renewable power structures</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.18/blm-experiments-with-camouflage-to-hide-renewable-power-structures</link>        <description>The Bureau of Land Management is working with landscape architects and camouflage experts to better disguise renewable energy infrastructure on public lands.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Kimberly Hirai</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Terry Del Bene</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Department of Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sherry Roche</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom Lahti</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>camouflage design</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Otak</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western public lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Land Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>renewable energy infrastructure</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>visual resource experts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kate Schwarzler</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-04T14:58:05Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.13/a-western-mystery-with-an-environmental-twist-a-review-of-buried-by-the-roan">        <title>A Western mystery with an environmental twist: a review of Buried by the Roan</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.13/a-western-mystery-with-an-environmental-twist-a-review-of-buried-by-the-roan</link>        <description>In Mark Stevens' second novel, Allison Coil, a tequila-drinking hunting guide, investigates a mysterious death in a remote landscape much sought after by oil and gas developers.  </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Erica Olsen</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>women detectives</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Buried by the Roan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mark Stevens</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>novels</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fiction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mysteries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mystery series</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-08-05T22:18:06Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.8/wild-lands-by-any-other-name">        <title>Wild lands by any other name</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.8/wild-lands-by-any-other-name</link>        <description>For 18 years, Westerners have been arguing about BLM’s wilderness-worthy land; now, the Obama administration has stepped in.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Federal Land Management and Policy Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Norton-Leavitt settlement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ken Salazar</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Obama environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM wilderness study areas</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-05-18T14:46:51Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.1/the-latest-wyoming-range">        <title>The latest: Wyoming Range</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.1/the-latest-wyoming-range</link>        <description>PXP will be allowed to develop 136 gas natural gas wells in the Wyoming Range.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Emilene Ostlind</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wyoming Range</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>PXP</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bridger-Teton National Forest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-01-31T19:55:28Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-hunters-called-they-want-their-deer-back">        <title>The hunters called -- they want their deer back</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-hunters-called-they-want-their-deer-back</link>        <description>As oil and gas wells increase in Wyoming, the state's deer herds decline.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Walt Gasson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wyoming deer populations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pinedale Anticline</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>deer hunters,</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. energy policy</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-12-01T23:08:49Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.19/oklahoma-vs.-the-west">        <title>Oklahoma vs. the West</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.19/oklahoma-vs.-the-west</link>        <description>Oklahoma Republican Sens. Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe have a way of riding roughshod over the West's environmental politics.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Denver Nicks and Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>climate change deniers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animal crush videos</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness legislation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Inhofe</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom Coburn</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental Protection Agency</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>guns in national parks</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-11-08T16:14:27Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-wild-area-gets-a-reprieve">        <title>A wild area gets a reprieve</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-wild-area-gets-a-reprieve</link>        <description>The Bureau of Land Management made the right call when it closed Colorado's Vermillion Basin to oil and gas development.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Suzanne Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Moffat County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Obama environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vermillion Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM Little Snake Field Office</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-22T17:15:39Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/epa-hearings-can-be-so-like-high-school">        <title>EPA hearings can be so, like, high school</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/epa-hearings-can-be-so-like-high-school</link>        <description>At an EPA hearing on oil and gas drilling, the so-called professionals scoffed and snickered at the testimony of local families.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Andrea Gelfuso</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>asthma</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA hearings</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public input</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling health effects</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-31T16:12:37Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.13/leasing-lag">        <title>Leasing lag?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.13/leasing-lag</link>        <description>The BLM is offering less land for oil and gas leasing in Wyoming.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Adam Petry</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Obama environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming energy industry</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-07-27T20:38:42Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.13/vermillion-surprise">        <title>Vermillion surprise</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.13/vermillion-surprise</link>        <description>BLM's no-drilling decision in Colorado startles locals.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jennie Lay</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>public lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ken Salazar</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Moffat County commissioners</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vermillion Basin</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-07-27T20:13:56Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.12/the-ute-paradox">        <title>The Ute Paradox</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.12/the-ute-paradox</link>        <description>The Southern Utes overcame poverty and oppression to become a wealthy and powerful tribe with nationwide energy holdings.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jonathan Thompson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Red Willow Offshore LLC</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Leonard Burch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Southern Ute Indians</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Jurrius</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sam Maynes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Matthew Box</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Southern Ute corporations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bakken Oil Formation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tribal governments</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-07-12T15:11:51Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/kicking-and-screaming-the-blm-makes-a-deal">        <title>Kicking and screaming, the BLM makes a deal</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/kicking-and-screaming-the-blm-makes-a-deal</link>        <description>The petroglyphs at Nine Mile Canyon in Utah are finally receiving some protection from oil and gas development.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>petroglyphs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Barrett Inc.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nine Mile Canyon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rock art</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Anasazi</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:04:25Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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