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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/floyd-dominy-the-colossus-of-dams-dies-at-100">        <title>Floyd Dominy, the colossus of dams, dies at 100</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/floyd-dominy-the-colossus-of-dams-dies-at-100</link>        <description>An interview with the former Bureau of Reclamation commissioner, who built Glen Canyon dam</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julianne Couch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2010-05-04T20:02:19Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-names-of-things-and-why-they-matter">        <title>The names of things and why they matter</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-names-of-things-and-why-they-matter</link>        <description>Westerners like knowing the names of local wildflowers, but Julianne Couch says it’s equally important to identify manmade objects in the landscape.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julianne Couch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Industrial landscapes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Julianne Couch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Geographical names</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pinedale Anticline</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western landscape</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wildflower identification</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:03:47Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17571">        <title>In Wyoming, caucusing gets personal</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17571</link>        <description>Julianne Couch was excited by Wyoming’s Democratic
caucus, feeling that for once it really mattered.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julianne Couch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Julianne Couch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming caucuses</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Democratic primary</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Barack Obama</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hillary Clinton</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:46:32Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17450">        <title>The day the view died</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17450</link>        <description>Julianne Couch regrets that Laramie has now grown so much
she can no longer recognize the familiar view she once loved to see
as she drove into town.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julianne Couch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Julianne Couch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Laramie</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>War Memorial Stadium</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>growth and development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>view sheds</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:45:49Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/356/17288">        <title>Nothing out there can be a very good thing</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/356/17288</link>        <description>Julianne Couch surveys the vastness of Wyoming’s
Adobe Town badlands and hopes that oil and gas drilling does not
invade its beautiful emptiness.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julianne Couch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Town</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Adobe</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Julianne Couch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming Red Desert</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-25T21:50:37Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17292">        <title>Nothing out there can be a very good thing</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17292</link>        <description>Julianne Couch surveys the vastness of Wyoming's Adobe
Town badlands and hopes that oil and gas drilling does not invade
its beautiful emptiness.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julianne Couch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Julianne Couch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Adobe
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                    <dc:subject>Wyoming Red Desert</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:44:43Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17050">        <title>Ducks on the walls</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17050</link>        <description>Julianne Couch would rather have real antlers on the walls
than a silkscreened trout adorning a sweatshirt.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julianne Couch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Hunting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>home decoration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>taxidermy</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:43:26Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16995">        <title>Flying with Cowgirls all over Wyoming</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16995</link>        <description>Julianne Couch says the University of Wyoming
women’s basketball team had the whole state cheering as they
became national champions.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julianne Couch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>basketball</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>wyoming</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:28:05Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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describes his love for a harsh landscape in essays, poetry and
fiction.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julianne Couch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Human beings and nature</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mormon Church</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>childhood</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>energy boom</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kevin Holdsworth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>autobi</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mormon</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Utah</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>poetry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fiction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>family life</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Martin’s Cove</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nonfiction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming writers</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-26T22:05:27Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16695">        <title>We bought an SUV, and we're proud of it</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16695</link>        <description>The writer buys an SUV because it does the job she needs
it to do. So there.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julianne Couch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Transportation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:28:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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bars that dot rural and remote Wyoming</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julianne Couch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Health</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western Culture</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:40:55Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16400">        <title>Waypoints of the heart</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16400</link>        <description>The writer loves geocache hunts — and wishes
everything in life were that simple</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julianne Couch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Public Lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Geocaching</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:40:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/319/16221">        <title>Waypoints of the heart</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/319/16221</link>        <description>The new hobby of geocaching gives the author and her
husband an excuse to explore Wyoming with a GPS while seeking to
decode small human mysteries</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Julianne Couch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Human Beings and Nature</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Geocaching</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>GPS units</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>exploring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>childhood memories</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>treasure maps</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>decoding</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cartography</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>journeys</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>quests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Garmin
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                    <dc:subject>Lewis and Clark expedition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>waypoints</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>caches</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>family
history</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alzheimer’s</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>memory</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hobbies</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:33:26Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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