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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.6/are-whale-watchers-taking-a-toll-on-puget-sounds-orcas">        <title>Are whale watchers taking a toll on Puget Sound's orcas?     </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.6/are-whale-watchers-taking-a-toll-on-puget-sounds-orcas</link>        <description>Unraveling the mystery of the whales' steady decline. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>whale watching</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Puget Sound's southern residents</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Puget Sound</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>orcas</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2013-04-17T15:25:36Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.20/seattle-based-artist-paints-portraits-of-a-melting-world">        <title>Seattle-based artist paints portraits of a melting world</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.20/seattle-based-artist-paints-portraits-of-a-melting-world</link>        <description>Maria Coryell-Martin uses 'expeditionary art' to educate people about climate change.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Arctic</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Maria Coryell-Martin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>expeditionary art</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>glaciers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water color</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>painting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hot Times</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change art</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-12-04T19:33:49Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.13/in-search-of-camas-a-native-american-food-staple">        <title>In search of camas, a Native American food staple</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.13/in-search-of-camas-a-native-american-food-staple</link>        <description>Botanist Madrona Murphy traces long-lost edible wild plant gardens cultivated by the Pacific Northwest's Coast Salish.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Northwestern Indian diet</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Juan archipelago, Washington</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native American agriculture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Skull Island</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Madrona Murphy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Camas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kwiáht Center for Historical Ecology of the Salish Sea</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Edible wildflowers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Archaeology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coast Salish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ethnobotanists</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-08-15T13:40:28Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.13/in-search-of-camas-a-native-american-food-staple/historic-plant-cultivation-in-northwest-native-tribes">        <title>Historic plant cultivation in Northwest native tribes</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.13/in-search-of-camas-a-native-american-food-staple/historic-plant-cultivation-in-northwest-native-tribes</link>        <description>Lying to rest a dispute over whether tribal reliance on fish meant they did not garden.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Northwestern Indian diet</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Juan archipelago, Washington</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native American agriculture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Skull Island</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Madrona Murphy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Camas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kwiáht Center for Historical Ecology of the Salish Sea</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Edible wildflowers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Archaeology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coast Salish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ethnobotanists</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-08-02T19:14:47Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.12/save-a-chimney-save-a-swift">        <title>Save a chimney, save a swift </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.12/save-a-chimney-save-a-swift</link>        <description>As their natural roosts disappeared, Vaux's swifts turned to old, brick chimneys for refuge during long migrations. Those safe havens are disappearing, too. Luckily, the swifts -- and the chimneys -- have found a champion in Larry Schwitters</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Birdwatchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Brick chimneys</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Selleck Schoolhouse, Seattle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Larry Schwitters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Frank Wagner Elementary School chimney</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Deforestation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vaux’s swifts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Migratory birds</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-07-23T14:47:03Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.12/save-a-chimney-save-a-swift/name-larry-schwitters">        <title>Name: Larry Schwitters </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.12/save-a-chimney-save-a-swift/name-larry-schwitters</link>        <description></description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2012-07-17T15:24:57Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Sidebar Blurb</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.7/balancing-fish-and-farms-on-a-washington-estuary">        <title>Balancing fish and farms on a Washington estuary</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.7/balancing-fish-and-farms-on-a-washington-estuary</link>        <description>A restoration effort at Fisher Slough in Washington's Skagit River Delta has encouraged cooperation between farmers and environmentalists - and might even help endangered chinook salmon.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>salmon fry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>irrigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>smoltification</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fisher Slough</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>estuary ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>collaborative groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Skagit River Delta</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salish fishermen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Skagit River Systems Cooperative</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>smolts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Skagit Chinook Recovery Plan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>chinook salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>agriculture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Skagit Valley farmers</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-05-09T14:34:37Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>birdwatchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>repositioning cruises</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ornithology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Golden Princess</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cruise ships</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>seabirds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bird counts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>albatrosses</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Todd Hass</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-10-28T15:29:26Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.19/the-windhover">        <title>The windhover</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.19/the-windhover</link>        <description>Biologist Travis Booms tracks Alaska's elusive gyrfalcons. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>gyrfalcons</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Travis Booms</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rough-legged hawks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>raptors</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-11-17T15:16:39Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.6/the-marten-chronicles">        <title>The marten chronicles</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.6/the-marten-chronicles</link>        <description>Biologists trying to photograph wolverines see martens as a nuisance, but martens are actually pretty cool creatures themselves. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>martens</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>North Cascades Wolverine study</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Rohrer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolverines</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife photography</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Adam Kehoe</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-04-14T15:50:47Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.21/the-wreck">        <title>The wreck</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.21/the-wreck</link>        <description>While scientists try to understand the reasons behind recent seabird die-offs, volunteers count the corpses on Northwest beaches.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Julia Parrish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ocean health</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>seabirds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bird die-offs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>COASST</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Miriam Bobkoff</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>surf scoters</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:04:07Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.20/after-the-floods">        <title>After the Floods</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.20/after-the-floods</link>        <description>The Ice Age Floods reshaped the landscape of eastern Washington -- and our knowledge of geology. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>geology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dry Falls</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Uniformitarianism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Geological Survey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joseph T. Pardee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Channeled Scablands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Catastrophism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>J Harlen  Bretz</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ice Age Floods</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gary Kleinknecht</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:27:16Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.16/all-along-the-watchtower">        <title>All along the watchtower</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.16/all-along-the-watchtower</link>        <description>Andrew McNair, who works weekends at a computer in Olympia, Wash., is not your typical Western fire watcher.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner </dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wildfires</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fire spotting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Firefighting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fire lookouts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Andrew McNair</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Beeturia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest fires</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jack Kerouac</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dispatchers</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:05:05Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.14/the-wandering-lepidopterist">        <title>The wandering lepidopterist </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.14/the-wandering-lepidopterist</link>        <description>Eric Wagner joins naturalist Robert Michael Pyle on one leg of his first-ever “Big Year” – in which he will try to see as many different butterflies as he possibly can.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Elfin Butterflies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Robert Michael Pyle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Insect Collecting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Butterflies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lepidopterists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Naturalists</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:27:13Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/89/2761">        <title>Catch-22</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/89/2761</link>        <description></description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eric Wagner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2008-07-16T23:48:05Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Letter to the Editor</dc:type>    </item>



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