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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.7/seeking-balance-in-oregons-timber-country">        <title>Seeking balance in Oregon's timber country</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.7/seeking-balance-in-oregons-timber-country</link>        <description>Can logging towns and old-growth forests both thrive in the Northwest?</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Nathan Rice</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oregon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>spotted owl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Glendale</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Roseburg</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Northwest Forest Plan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>timber</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2013-05-06T15:22:27Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>Okanagan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>spotted owl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cascades</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drought</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2013-04-26T22:13:42Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.7/seeking-balance-in-oregons-timber-country/lawmakers-scramble-to-fix-the-funding-problem-in-oregons-timber-counties">        <title>Lawmakers scramble to fix the funding problem in Oregon's timber counties</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.7/seeking-balance-in-oregons-timber-country/lawmakers-scramble-to-fix-the-funding-problem-in-oregons-timber-counties</link>        <description>A few of the proposals to stop the bleeding in rural timber-dependent counties.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Nathan Rice</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2013-04-26T22:13:43Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Infographic</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>Oregon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>spotted owl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Glendale</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Roseburg</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Northwest Forest Plan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>timber</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2013-04-26T22:13:43Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>Utah Prairie Dog Habitat Exchange Program</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Conservation banking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Growth and development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Utah prairie dogs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Prairie dog relocation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Conservation incentives</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Threatened wildlife</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-08-29T15:37:27Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>Silverton, Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Downhill skiing</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Matt Milski Memorial Ski Race</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lake City Ski Hill</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-21T14:46:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>flood damage</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Campaign for America's Wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington state Wilderness Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>collaboration</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Civilian Conservation Corps</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>outdoor economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Wild Sky Wilderness</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>wilderness road repair</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Darrington, Washington</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Register of Historic Places</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cascade Range</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public comment</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness helicopter flights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wilderness Watch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking trail repair</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>northern spotted owl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>marbled murrelet</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-01-25T15:49:59Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.22/boulder-colo-votes-for-energy-independence-from-its-corporate-utility">        <title>Boulder, Colo., votes for energy independence -- from its utility</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.22/boulder-colo-votes-for-energy-independence-from-its-corporate-utility</link>        <description>After a hard-fought political campaign the town of Boulder passed a ballot initiative allowing it to create its own municipal utility in order to help reach its ambitious environmental goals.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Nathan Rice</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Xcel Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>2011 election</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political campaigns</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>community choice aggregation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>electrical rates</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>urban sustainability</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>electricity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>power lines</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>natural gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado ballot initiatives</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kyoto Protocol</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>renewable energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public utilities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>power plants</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Boulder politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>municipal utilities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>power transmission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>solar power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>power municipalization</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wind power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Boulder Measure 2C</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-08-14T16:05:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/western-natural-gas-on-the-high-seas">        <title>Oregon natural gas export terminal gets first approval</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/western-natural-gas-on-the-high-seas</link>        <description>It could become the first export facility on the U.S. West Coast 
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                    <dc:subject>Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dasani</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jon Jarvis</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>garbage</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>corporate pressure</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>recycling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Zion National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park Service</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>litter</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New York Times</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>plastic water bottle bans</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>bottled water</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Doug Zimmer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chris Servheen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone grizzlies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Natural Resources Defense Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grizzly Wars</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Gaines</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hair snag stations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Scott Fitkin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grizzly Bear Outreach Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Louisa Willcox</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cascade Range grizzly bears</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Aja Woodrow</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife biologists</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-23T16:22:00Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/breathing-clean-comes-in-second-in-congress">        <title>Breathing clean air comes in second in Congress</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/breathing-clean-comes-in-second-in-congress</link>        <description>House bills to delay air pollution standards move on to the Senate.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Nathan Rice</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2011-11-18T15:08:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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