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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-education-of-an-oyster-farmer">        <title>The education of an oyster farmer</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-education-of-an-oyster-farmer</link>        <description>If you want to run a successful oyster farm, you need to develop a taste for eating raw oysters.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Kumamoto oyster</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pacific Coast oysters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ocean ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hama Hama oyster</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>raw oysters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ostreaphiles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rural life</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oyster farming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>local foods</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ocean acidification</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sustainable farming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hood Canal oysters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oyster recipes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>unusual family businesses</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-02-08T21:47:14Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/blogs/range/western-resource-extraction-now-and-then">        <title>Western resource extraction, now and then</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/blogs/range/western-resource-extraction-now-and-then</link>        <description>Photography exhibit shows different approaches to logging</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>lissaj</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2010-06-03T14:09:32Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Blog Post</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/blogs/range/back-at-the-table-again">        <title> Back at the Table, Again</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/blogs/range/back-at-the-table-again</link>        <description>Washington State reevaluates its logging regulations to prioritize forest preservation, but many challenges lie ahead. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>lissaj</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2010-06-03T14:06:14Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Blog Post</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/blogs/range/weyerhauser-sell-off">        <title>Huge Chunks of Land, Changing Hands</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/blogs/range/weyerhauser-sell-off</link>        <description>Dismal timber, real-estate markets don't get in the way of huge timberland selloff</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>lissaj</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2010-06-03T14:09:32Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Blog Post</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.14/brushed-aside-1">        <title>Brushed aside</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.14/brushed-aside-1</link>        <description>On Washington's Olympic Peninsula, the once-lucrative floral greens industry is floundering as its immigrant workers face deportation.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>floral greens</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Olympic Peninsula</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Border Patrol</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>illegal immigration</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:27:09Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/wherever-you-go-there-you-are">        <title>Wherever you go, there you are</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/wherever-you-go-there-you-are</link>        <description>Lissa James learns about solitude in places as diverse as an apartment in downtown Paris and a ranch in rural Wyoming.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wyoming ranches</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paris</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Loneliness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Solitude</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Aloneness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lissa James</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Personal history</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rural life</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:15:03Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/362/17456">        <title>Treehuggers and treecutters unite</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/362/17456</link>        <description>Environmentalists have been working with Washington
foresters to keep small tree farms in business, but the treaty
between the two remains a fragile one.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Steve Stinson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tree farms</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>small foresters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest and Fish Rules</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon habitat</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-02-14T23:16:42Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17102">        <title>Water does move uphill toward money</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17102</link>        <description>Lissa James figures that, with so many other
get-rich-quick schemers exploiting the West’s need for water,
she should have no problem selling her new book, How to Turn
Catastrophe into Cash.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Water companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drought</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>get-rich-quick schemes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>investment scams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lissa James</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:43:46Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16773">        <title>Christmas fuels the 'bough industry' in
Washington</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16773</link>        <description>The writer tells how Christmas has fueled a "bough
industry" in the forest</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Logging</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:41:32Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15511">        <title>Cows versus condos -- Northwest style</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15511</link>        <description>Some say that Washington’s Forests and Fish rules
could be so hard on small timber farms that the owners are likely
to sell out to development, to the detriment of salmon and other
wildlife</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forests and Fish plan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>national forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>road building</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington Forest
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                    <dc:subject>Washington Forest Law Center</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Peter
Goldman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>habitat conservation plans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>steam buffers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington s</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-30T21:49:54Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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and the timber industry in Washington State, but clauses in the
agreement may tilt it against wildlife</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forests and Fish plan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>national forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>road building</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington Forest
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                    <dc:subject>Washington Forest Law Center</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Peter
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                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>habitat conservation plans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>steam buffers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington s</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-30T21:46:12Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/297/15471">        <title>Backbreaking work props up 'sustainable' crops</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/297/15471</link>        <description>California farmworkers fight for stricter regulations on
hand weeding, only to find themselves at odds with organic
farmers.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Crops</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California agriculture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>organic farming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hand weeding
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                    <dc:subject>Cesar Chavez</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>short-handled hoe law</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California OSHA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>farmworkers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>worker protection</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>back injuries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>USDA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California
Sustainable Agriculture Working Group</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Aimee Shreck</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rio Farms</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mont</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:31Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/292/15312">        <title>Evolution of a timber family</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/292/15312</link>        <description>A Northwestern family finds itself in the midst of heated
controversy over ecology and economics when it has to decide how to
manage its timber farm</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Logging Communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>families</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>timber farms</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salvage logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmentalists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>board footage</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sustained yield</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>old
growth</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:36Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15263">        <title>Wildlife refuge may still be radioactive</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15263</link>        <description>Scientists may have found a radioactive "hot spot" at the
former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant near Denver, soon to be
home to a wildlife refuge</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Waste</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rocky Flats</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife refuge</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>radioactivity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nuclear
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                    <dc:subject>plutonium triggers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Department of Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kaiser-Hill</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joseph Legare</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>LeRoy Moore</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice
Center</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:11Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15227">        <title>Graves halt a highway project</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15227</link>        <description>An ambitious highway construction project has been put on
hold in Port Angeles, Wash., following the discovery of the
state’s largest prehistoric village</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Lissa James</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Hood Canal Bridge</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>archaeological sites</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native American villages</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>prehistoric sites</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Frances Charles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington State Department of Transportation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Indian burials</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>longhouses</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:22:55Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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