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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.20/a-washington-tribe-and-a-timber-company-wrestle-over-a-forests-future">        <title>A Washington tribe and a timber company wrestle over a forest's future </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.20/a-washington-tribe-and-a-timber-company-wrestle-over-a-forests-future</link>        <description>The Port Gamble S'Klallam are protecting their treaty rights to fish and shellfish in Port Gamble Bay, using laws to limit development, much to the frustration of timber company-turned-developer Pope Resources.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Joshua Zaffos</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Port Gamble</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Port Gamble S’Klallam</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Treaty rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Private timber land</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pope Resources</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Boldt Decision</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>timber</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-12-13T16:52:38Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.20/tilting-the-balance-of-power">        <title>Tilting the balance of power</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.20/tilting-the-balance-of-power</link>        <description>Tribal efforts to hold on to heritage and right past wrongs continue in Port Gamble, Washington. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Sarah Gilman</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Port Gamble S’Klallam</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pope Resources</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Port Gamble</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Private timber land</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Treaty rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Boldt Decision</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>timber</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-11-21T21:02:39Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.14/tunneling-under-californias-bay-delta-water-wars">        <title>Tunneling under California's Bay Delta water wars</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.14/tunneling-under-californias-bay-delta-water-wars</link>        <description>Environmentalists and fishermen have panned past versions of Gov. Jerry Brown's new proposal for water export tunnels, but it might actually help endangered fish.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Emily Green</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Irrigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California agriculture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jerry Brown</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Joaquin River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California water exports</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Delta smelt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sacramento River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Water supply</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Peripheral canal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bay Delta Conservation Plan tunnels</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Steelhead</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Francisco Bay Delta</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-08-20T19:17:45Z</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
Protection Association</dc:subject>        
                    <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>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15510">        <title>In the Washington woods, managers face a catch-22</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15510</link>        <description>The Forests and Fish plan was supposed to help both salmon
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
Protection Association</dc:subject>        
                    <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>2012-03-30T21:46:12Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/305/15751">        <title>The Snake River, unplugged</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/305/15751</link>        <description>The Nez Perce Tribe says that salmon-killing dams -- such
as the three in Hells Canyon whose licenses are up for renewal this
year – amount to an illegal "taking" of the tribe’s
guaranteed right to fish</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rachel Odell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dams And Water Supply Projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Indian
Culture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nez Perce Tribe</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Elmer Crow</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tribal fishing
rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydroelectric</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>takings clause</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Constitution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>treaty
rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>William Orrick</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bolt Decision</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John
Echohawk</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Doug Nas</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-08T22:23:02Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/306/15786">        <title>Agency slashes critical habitat for salmon</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/306/15786</link>        <description>Faced with a lawsuit by the National Association of Home
Builders, NOAA Fisheries decides to strip protections from
four-fifths of the currently designated critical habitat for
salmon</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Emma Brown</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Association of
Home Builders</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>critical habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ernie Platt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jan Hasselman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Wildlife Federation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Brian Gorman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush environmental
policy</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-05T23:05:02Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/324/16366">        <title>Fishing ban will make us forget salmon</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/324/16366</link>        <description>Fishing is not the reason behind the decline of the
Northwest’s salmon; the desire for cheap hydroelectric power
is</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Gina Knudson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hydroelectric</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fishing ban</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>threatened
species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sport fishing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>chinook salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>commercial fishing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydroelectric power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>David Wu</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Larry Craig</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fish Passage Center</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Keith Peterson</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-12T03:11:39Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16269">        <title>Hobby miners flock to public streams</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16269</link>        <description>Amateur gold prospectors are invading the West’s
publicly owned streams, and environmentalists say the hobby’s
popularity threatens fish and the environment</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matthew Preusch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gold</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Prospecting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gold mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gold panning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>amateur miners</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hobby mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Siskiyou Mountains</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Siskiyou Regional Education
Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Siskiyou Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Barbara Ullian</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>stream ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental damage</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dredging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>redds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water
turbidity</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-10T23:55:21Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/320/16233">        <title>Dam removal considered for Klamath</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/320/16233</link>        <description>Farmers, environmentalists, fishermen and tribes are
talking with PacifiCorp officials about the possible removal of
four dams on the Klamath River</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Brett Wilkison</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Dams and Water Supply Projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Klamath River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fish kills</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>irrigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fishing
industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fishing restrictions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Klamath River chinook</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>PacifiCorp</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dam removal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydropower dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fish ladders</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Trout Unlimited</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chuck
Bonham</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dave Kvamme</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dam license renewal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Reclamation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>f</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-07T18:28:57Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/319/16210">        <title>Columbia River dams revived</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/319/16210</link>        <description>In Washington, tribes have been shut out of a plan for new
Columbia River dams that are being touted as good for salmon as
well as farmers</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dams and Water Supply Projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Columbia River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>reservoirs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>irrigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Christine Gregoire</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington
Legislature</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gerry O’Keefe</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington Department of Ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yakama Nation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Columbia Basin Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clark Kagele</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-10-27T21:51:47Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/300/15574">        <title>For salmon, a crucial moment of decision</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/300/15574</link>        <description>A judge has thrown out the Bush administration’s
salmon protection plan, setting the stage for dramatic changes to
the federal hydropower system</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rocky Barker</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dams And Water Supply Projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hydropower</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judge James Redden</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush
administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush salmon plan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon recovery</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush
environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NOAA Fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dam-breaching</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Snake
River dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Columbia River dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bob Lohn</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>William Dwyer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Northwest
Forest Pl</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-03-18T23:26:50Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/363/17486">        <title>Nevada stakes its salmon claim</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/363/17486</link>        <description>Nevada sportsmen, tribes and environmentalists ask the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission not to renew licenses for
Hells Canyon’s dams until Idaho Power makes it possible for
salmon to survive its dams.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ken Olsen</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Hells Canyon dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>passage</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nevada salmon</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-02-14T22:40:02Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/35/1051">        <title>Shrinking salmon</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/35/1051</link>        <description>As salmon runs in the Northwest diminish, the size of
individual fish decreases too.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Elizabeth Manning</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-10-27T16:00:02Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/336/16726">        <title>River Redux</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/336/16726</link>        <description>Six decades after Friant Dam killed off the San Joaquin
River’s spring-run chinook, the Natural Resources Defense
Council and the Friant Water Users Authority are working with the
federal government to restore both the fish and the river</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>irrigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Section</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>spring-run</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California Department of Fish and Game</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hal Candee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Friant Dam</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bakersfield</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Joaquin River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dams and Water Supply</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Merced River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fresno</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Reclamation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Natural Resources Defense Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>5937</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kole</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>chinook</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-09T20:19:09Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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