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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/217/10929">        <title>Tribe's pines fetch clean air credits</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/217/10929</link>        <description>London-based Sustainable Forestry Management will get
carbon dioxide emissions credits for funding the Flathead Indian
Reservation's work replanting ponderosa pines on 250 burned acres
of the Montana reservation.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Reservations And Economic Development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:51:06Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/214/10833">        <title>All's fair in smog and waste?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/214/10833</link>        <description>A new Web site created by the Oakland, Calif., nonprofit
Environmental Defense gathers information about environmental and
health dangers in any community in the U.S.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:37:06Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/210/10718">        <title>Keeping an eye on The Planet</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/210/10718</link>        <description>Almost entirely student-run, Western Washington
University's environmental magazine, "The Planet," uses local and
regional stories to address national issues.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Media</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:36:25Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/210/10717">        <title>Dictionary of the American West</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/210/10717</link>        <description>In his newly revised edition of "Dictionary of the
American West," Win Blevins explores the lingoes of many different
Western subcultures in an entertaining manner.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:36:25Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/210/10711">        <title>Gas industry gambles on New Mexico mesa</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/210/10711</link>        <description>Critics warn that plans to drill for natural gas may harm
New Mexico's remote Otero Mesa and the biological integrity of its
Chihuahuan Desert grasslands.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:36:23Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/209/10695">        <title>Arctic Refuge</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/209/10695</link>        <description>The brief essays gathered in Arctic Refuge: A Circle of
Testimony offer passionate arguments against drilling in Alaska's
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wildlife Refuges</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:36:16Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/209/10694">        <title>Small steps for change</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/209/10694</link>        <description>Jessica Sherwood's Feet First Program seeks to fight
Colorado sprawl and traffic by introducing schoolchildren to the
idea of alternative transportation.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:36:16Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/209/10680">        <title>Fire plan gets a scolding</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/209/10680</link>        <description>The government's General Accounting Office criticizes the
$1.6 billion National Fire Plan approved by Congress last
September.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Nijhuis and Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Fire</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:36:09Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/209/10677">        <title>Four-wheelin' for fee</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/209/10677</link>        <description>Four-wheel-drive recreationists protest the Forest
Service's new $5 per vehicle fee to enter Canyon Creek near Ouray,
Colorado.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Off Road Vehicles</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:36:07Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/208/10655">        <title>Predators keep their pelts</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/208/10655</link>        <description>The Colorado Wildlife Commission decides not to allow
live-cage trapping and shooting seasons for the swift fox, pine
marten and opossum.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Hunting/Trapping</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:35:57Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/208/10652">        <title>Blackfeet bet on wind</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/208/10652</link>        <description>Montana's Blackfeet Indians plan to build the first
large-scale wind-energy project on tribal land.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Renewable Energy</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/207/10635">        <title>Wetland degrader swims in murky waters</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/207/10635</link>        <description>The EPA has taken Idaho rancher John Simpson to court for
clearing debris and beaver dams out of a channel of the Salmon
River, although endangered salmon have since spawned in the
channel, complicating the issue.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Riparian Areas And Wetlands</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:35:52Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/207/10632">        <title>Indigenous group seeks citizenship</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/207/10632</link>        <description>A bill before Congress will grant citizenship to Tohono
O'odham Indians, whose traditional land is divided by the
U.S.-Mexico border.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:35:50Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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disabled and domesticated golden eagles, which will provide the
feathers the tribe needs for cultural and religious
purposes.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Indian Culture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:35:31Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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vandalism if Anschutz Exploration Co. drills an exploratory oil
well and upgrades an access road in Montana's Weatherman
Draw.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laurel Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Petroglyphs</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:35:29Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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