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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/a-former-energy-company-lawyer-now-fights-for-the-other-side">        <title>A former energy company lawyer now fights for the other side</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/a-former-energy-company-lawyer-now-fights-for-the-other-side</link>        <description>Attorney Lance Astrella represents landowners coping with oil and gas development on their doorsteps.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>attorneys</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lance Astrella</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Split Estate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-07-29T16:32:12Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/a-former-energy-company-lawyer-now-fights-for-the-other-side/name-lance-astrella">        <title>Name: Lance Astrella</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/a-former-energy-company-lawyer-now-fights-for-the-other-side/name-lance-astrella</link>        <description></description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2011-07-21T21:52:55Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Sidebar Blurb</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.10/states-rev-up-orv-rules">        <title>States rev up ORV rules</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.10/states-rev-up-orv-rules</link>        <description>While federal public-land agencies dither, some Western states are cracking down on off-road vehicle problems.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>off-road vehicles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public land access</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:50:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.6/conservation-or-cop-out">        <title>Conservation or cop-out?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.6/conservation-or-cop-out</link>        <description>A lack of participation could scuttle voluntary conservation agreements designed to protect species like New Mexico’s lesser prairie chickens and sand dune lizards.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese </dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>lesser prairie chicken</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sand dune lizard</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>voluntary conservation agreements</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:55:22Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.20/who2019ll-clean-up-when-the-party2019s-over">        <title>Who’ll clean up when the party’s over? </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.20/who2019ll-clean-up-when-the-party2019s-over</link>        <description>There are efforts to reclaim oil and gas drilling sites, but many fear it’s too little, too late. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese </dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Gas and oil reclamation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gas boom</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Land Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gas and oil leasing</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:58:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.13/home-is-where-the-guilt-is">        <title>Home is where the guilt is </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.13/home-is-where-the-guilt-is</link>        <description>In Santa Fe, N.M., April Reese wrestles with the question of whether owning a new house is worth being responsible for the bulldozing of pinon and juniper trees.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>home</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Santa Fe</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>construction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>real estate</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:31:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/368/17640">        <title>The leasing protest game</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/368/17640</link>        <description>Conservationists can file formal protests when the BLM
wants to auction off public land to energy companies, but the
differences between regional management plans and styles make the
protest game little more than a crapshoot.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>energy development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush environmental policy</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-02T20:10:34Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/336/16727">        <title>Environmental change</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/336/16727</link>        <description>Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., does an about-face and moves
to protect New Mexico’s Valle Vidal from oil and gas
drilling</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Matt Letourneau</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Senate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Wilderness Society</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coalition for the Valle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sangre de</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Albuquerque City Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Valle Vidal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vida</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pete Domenici</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Valle Vidal Protection</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cristo Mountains</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Martin Heinrich</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dave Alberswerth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Public</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-09T20:21:46Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16412">        <title>As states ponder protection, roadless forests unravel</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16412</link>        <description>Western states debate the best way to look after their
roadless areas even as logging, drilling and mining move in on
formerly protected lands</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Roads and Roadless Areas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clear Fork roadless area</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grand
Mesa-Uncompahgre-Gunnison National Forest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>aspen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mark Rey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Clinton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Roadless Area Conservation Rule</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western
governors</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Owens</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>roadless area petitions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy exploration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil an</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-13T00:48:25Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16146">        <title>Energy company stakes out wildlife refuge</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16146</link>        <description>Yates Petroleum Co. plans to drill two gas wells in New
Mexico’s Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wildlife Refuges</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yates Petroleum Co.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy
industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas wells</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife refuges</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bitter Lake
National Wildlife Refuge</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paul Tashjian</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rare species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling permits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>well pa</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:57:09Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/308/15850">        <title>States lead charge against global warming</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/308/15850</link>        <description>With the federal government dragging its feet, Western
states are beginning to take action to deal with greenhouse gas
emissions and global warming</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>State Legislatures</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>state legislatures</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal government</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>renewable energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>greenhouse gases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>renewable
portfolio standards</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Janet Napolitano</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arnold Schwarzenegger</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill
Richardson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dirk Kempthorne</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ethanol</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>alternative fuels</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public
transp</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:20Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15656">        <title>Wolf man John</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15656</link>        <description>John Morgart works for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
overseeing the recovery of Mexican wolves in the Blue Range of New
Mexico and Arizona</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered Species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Morgart</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mexican
wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolf reintroduction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Blue Range</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered
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                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gray wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sonoran
pronghorn</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-04-17T21:38:05Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15653">        <title>Western governors wary of roadless forest mess</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15653</link>        <description>The Bush administration says its revision of the Roadless
Area Conservation Rule rule will increase local control over
national forests, but as Western governors read the fine print,
they begin to have doubts</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Roads And Roadless Areas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Roadless Area Conservation Rule</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>national forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush
administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kenny Guinn</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dirk
Kempthorne</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ted Kulongoski</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Christine Gregoire</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Janet Napolitano</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Brian Schweitzer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arnold Schwarzenegger</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Richardson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dan
Jiron</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mar</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:25:36Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/295/15409">        <title>One BLM district grabs the bull by the horns</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/295/15409</link>        <description>On the Upper Deschutes area of Oregon, the Bureau of Land
Management is working to move cows off the public land</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grazing permits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cattle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Robert Town</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Prineville
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                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing allotments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Teal Purrington</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>range
management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oregon Natural Desert Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Marlett</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing buyouts</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:11Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/295/15398">        <title>The Big Buyout</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/295/15398</link>        <description>Tough economics, drought, and increasing clashes with
other public-lands users are leading some ranchers to consider
taking the "golden saddle" – a check from conservationists in
exchange for their grazing permits</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Whitney III</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Circle Bar Ranch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing allotments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing permits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Public Lands
Grazing Campaign</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing buyouts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Marlett</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oregon Natural
Desert Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Andy Kerr</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Conservation Fund</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mike Ford</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Ca</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:05Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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