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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.16/one-sagebrush-rebellion-flickers-out-or-does-it">        <title>One Sagebrush Rebellion flickers out -- or does it?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.16/one-sagebrush-rebellion-flickers-out-or-does-it</link>        <description>Wayne Hage's 20-year court battle over ranching on public lands comes to a close, but his son continues to tussle with the feds.</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>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wayne Hage</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>takings</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sagebrush Rebellion</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-09-21T15:57:33Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/310/15909">        <title>Property-rights measure overturned</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/310/15909</link>        <description>Oregon’s controversial Measure 37, which de-clawed
the state’s famous land-use regulations, has been ruled
unconstitutional by a Marion County judge.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Randy Stapilus</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Land Use And Planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Measure 37</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oregon land-use regulations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>zoning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judge Mary James</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>urban growth boundaries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>takings</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>separation of powers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oregonians in Action</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ross
Day</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:38Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/295/15405">        <title>The public pays to keep water in a river</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/295/15405</link>        <description>Three important "takings" lawsuits claim farmers should be
compensated when water is withheld from irrigators in order to help
endangered species during times of drought</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lawsuits And Water Rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Francisco
Bay Delta</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>chinook salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>delta smelt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Klamath River Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Central San Joaquin Water Conservation District</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>irrigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>takings lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fifth Amendment</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Roger Marzulla</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Stockton</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:08Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15260">        <title>Split-estate rebellion: Ranchers take on energy
developers</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15260</link>        <description>Frustrated Wyoming ranchers make an end-run around
legislators and oil and gas lobbies to take the split-estate issue
to the last constituency who might help them: the voters.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Kerry Brophy</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>subsurface rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>split estate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Landowners Association of Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Shaun Andrikopoulos</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush
administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming
Legislature</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Laurie Goodman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dave Freudenthal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bruce Hinchey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Petroleu</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:09Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15226">        <title>Seattle's rural neighbors rise up</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15226</link>        <description>Inspired by Oregon’s Measure 37, a private-property
rights group in King County, Wash., is fighting to repeal recently
adopted land-use ordinances</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Land Use And Planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land use</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>zoning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Measure 37</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Citizens’
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                    <dc:subject>Washington Growth Management Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property values</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pacific Legal Foundation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kathy
Lambert</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:22:51Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/289/15186">        <title>City slaps back at property-rights measure</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/289/15186</link>        <description>In response to Oregon’s recently passed Measure 37,
Bend, Ore., adopts a rule that allows people to sue their neighbors
if nearby development reduces property values</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Land Use And Planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bend</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oregon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land use</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>zoning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Measure 37</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Hummel</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oregonians in Action</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property values</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:22:33Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/287/15139">        <title>In Oregon, a lesson learned the hard way</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/287/15139</link>        <description>Oregon’s famed land-use laws take a stake to the
heart, thanks to voter ire and planners' failure to explain the
benefits of a system that has kept strip-malls and sprawl to a
minimum</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rebecca Clarren</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Land Use And Planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oregon land-use laws</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>planning regulationas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sprawl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dennis Glick</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sonoran Institute</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ballot initiatives</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>elections</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:22:04Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/285/15091">        <title>How to deal with oil and gas development</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/285/15091</link>        <description>The Oil and Gas Accountability Project has created Oil and
Gas at Your Door, a guidebook and Web site for Western landowners
confronted by energy development</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Dan Wilcock</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas Accountability Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>natural gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coalbed methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy companies</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:21:46Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/360/17393">        <title>The Sagebrush Rebels ride again -- and again</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/360/17393</link>        <description>Despite the rhetoric of the Sagebrush Rebel lawyers, most
of today’s Westerners understand that the public land is a
national resource that belongs to all of us.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>wise-use movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public land</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sagebrush Rebellion</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Scott McInnis</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-05-09T21:12:22Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16409">        <title>Taking Liberties</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16409</link>        <description>The Western states are home to a stealth campaign by
libertarians who – under the guise of reforming eminent
domain – are out to destroy all land-use planning through
"takings" ballot initiatives</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>initiatives</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Takings issues</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>eminent domain</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>libertarians</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land use planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Libertarian Party</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Supreme Court</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fifth Amendment</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Elections</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kelo case</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>petition gathering</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Measure 37</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Land Use and Planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>signature gatherers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ballot</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>l</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Eric Dondero</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>private property</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-13T00:17:04Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16489">        <title>How we lost our ranch to gas drilling</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16489</link>        <description>A rancher recounts how oil drilling destroyed her rural
lifestyle and forced her and her husband to sell their western
Colorado ranch</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rosemary Bilchak</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rosemary Bilchak</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado Oil and Gas
Conservation Commission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>petroleum companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>well pads</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>unitization</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>surface-use agreement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>landowners</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-30T17:10:34Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16266">        <title>The Latest Bounce</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16266</link>        <description>Mining company allowed to dump waste into Alaskan lake;
Colorado split-estate bill unravels; Arizona’s Oak Flat may
become a copper mine</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Mining waste</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Army Corps of Engineers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alaska Coeur</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Water Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gold mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lower Slate Lake</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alaska</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>split-estate bill</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kathleen Curry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy
industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>landowners</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coalbed</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-10T23:44:29Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/304/15721">        <title>Feds oppose state's effort to empowerlandowners</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/304/15721</link>        <description>Wyoming’s new "split-estate" law, designed to give
private landowners more control over energy development on their
property, hits a big obstacle – the Bush
administration</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Kerry Brophy</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>split-estate law</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil
and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling
impacts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kathleen Clarke</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Laurie Goodman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Landowners Association of
Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pat Crank</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush administration</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-30T22:30:42Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/360/17399">        <title>Rebels with a Lost Cause</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/360/17399</link>        <description>The fiercely conservative lawyers of the Sagebrush
Rebellion continue to fight against environmental regulations, but
despite all their sound and fury, very little has changed on the
public lands.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Foundation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>lawyers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wise-use movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mountain States Legal Foundation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pacific Legal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sagebrush Rebellion</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-07-21T22:29:34Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/359/17373">        <title>Growth unfettered</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/359/17373</link>        <description>Arizonans are grappling with the consequences of
Proposition 207, an anti-takings measure passed last
fall.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Daniel Kraker</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land-use</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jon Regner</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>zoning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>takings</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Proposition 207</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pacific Legal Foundation</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-09T21:43:05Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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