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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/262/14369">        <title>Vernal pools fall to a shopping mall</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/262/14369</link>        <description>A shopping center and apartment complex destroyed over 60
of the vernal pools necessary to endangered San Diego fairy shrimp,
and despite the Multiple Species Conservation Program, only one of
the pools was saved</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Land Use And Planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Multiple Species Conservation Program</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>MSCP</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered
species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Diego fairy shrimp</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land use and planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>habitat
conservation plans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>growth and development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Diego</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:55:15Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/262/14355">        <title>San Diego’s Habitat Triage</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/262/14355</link>        <description>San Diego, Calif., adopted its groundbreaking Multiple
Species Conservation Program to protect wildlife habitat while
allowing for continued community growth – but critics say
endangered wildlife is the loser in the deal</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Land Use And Planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>habitat conservation plans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land use
and planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Diego</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Multiple Species Conservation
Program</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>MSCP</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife preserves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>growth and development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sprawl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ecosystems</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>threatened plants and
ani</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:55:09Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/260/14307">        <title>Pygmy-owl may lose protection</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/260/14307</link>        <description>A court ruling may lead to the removal of the endangered
status currently assigned to Arizona’s cactus ferruginous
pygmy-owls</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Threatened And Endangered Species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pima
County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arizona</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Defenders of
Wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jenny Neeley</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:13:59Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/220/11020">        <title>Will bulldozers roll into Arizona's Eden?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/220/11020</link>        <description>Anti-grazing activist Joe Feller is leading the fight
against BLM-approved projects in Arizona's Arrastra Mountain
Wilderness that include an improved access road to a rancher's
inholding.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Access And Inholding</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:51:43Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/213/10812">        <title>...while another quietly moves ahead</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/213/10812</link>        <description>Alma, N.M., rancher Sewell Goodwin believes that removing
cattle from riparian grazing has actually improved their
health.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:36:59Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/213/10811">        <title>One rancher stands in defiance...</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/213/10811</link>        <description>New Mexico rancher Hugh B. McKeen continues to battle the
federal government over grazing restrictions on his Gila National
Forest allotment.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:36:59Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/213/10791">        <title>Healing the Gila</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/213/10791</link>        <description>Three years after cows were banned from some Southwestern
rivers, the San Francisco River in the Gila National Forest shows
signs of recovery, but struggling ranchers and uneven wildlife
numbers prove that the struggle over desert grazing is still
alive.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:36:49Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/209/10678">        <title>Neighbors get nasty in New Mexico</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/209/10678</link>        <description>An armed encounter erupts between environmental activist
Deirdre Wolf and local rancher Alex Thal over whether a road
through her property near Silver City, N.M., is public or
private.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:36:08Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/208/10651">        <title>Court helps candidates</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/208/10651</link>        <description>The court overturns the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's
ban on citizen petitions to list candidates for endangered species
protection.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:35:56Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/206/10608">        <title>Luxury homes torched in Tucson</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/206/10608</link>        <description>In Phoenix, Mark Warren Sands is charged with burning down
eight trophy homes, but the June arsons that burned three
brand-new, vacant luxury homes in Tucson's Pima Canyon Estates
remain a mystery.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis and Mitch Tobin</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Communities In Transition</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:35:37Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/205/10589">        <title>A seminal sprawl fight ends in compromise</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/205/10589</link>        <description>A six-year fight over the Canoa Ranch south of Tucson
ended in compromise, with development to take place but 4,800 acres
of open space to be preserved.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Land Use And Planning</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:35:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/202/10499">        <title>County unveils pioneering protection plan</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/202/10499</link>        <description>Tucson's innovative Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan will
protect hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin desert while still
allowing newcomers to build on less environmentally sensitive
land.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Desert Land Use, Planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Deserts</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:34:52Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/195/10222">        <title>Service leaves endangered species in limbo</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/195/10222</link>        <description>Environmentalists fear that a listing freeze at the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service - which the agency blames on a
much-reduced budget - will lead to a host of endangered species
going extinct.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered Species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:33:24Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/193/10167">        <title>Feds fight chaos in a desert playground</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/193/10167</link>        <description>Off-road vehicle users are upset by the BLM's decision to
close to ORVs about half of Southern California's Algodones
Dunes.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>ORV</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:33:04Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/191/10116">        <title>In Arizona's growth fight, advertising defined
reality</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/191/10116</link>        <description>Arizona's anti-growth Proposition 202 failed largely
because its well-heeled opponents blanketed the airways with often
inaccurate advertising.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Land Use And Planning</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:32:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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