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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/talking-vegetarianism-to-a-hunter">        <title>Talking vegetarianism to a hunter</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/talking-vegetarianism-to-a-hunter</link>        <description>An airplane chat between a vegetarian and a hunter yields unexpected
common ground, largely over a mutual love and respect for wildlife.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Brendan Leonard</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>airplane flights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>meat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conversation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>food</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bears</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>carnivores</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vegetarians</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animal rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political arguments</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-06-07T15:13:01Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/ted-nugent-doesnt-speak-for-me">        <title>Ted Nugent doesn’t speak for me</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/ted-nugent-doesnt-speak-for-me</link>        <description>Hunters, gun owners and NRA members need an articulate spokesman, but a
loudmouth like Ted Nugent is not the ideal candidate.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Pat Wray</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>semi-automatic rifles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vietnam War</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>poaching</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>game laws</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>anti-Obama extremists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ted Nugent</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gun owners</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Zumbo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NRA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>illegal hunting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rock musicians</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Secret Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Barack Obama</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Rifle Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>chickenhawks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>right-wing extremists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>draft dodgers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-05-23T23:45:51Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-truth-about-wolves-is-hard-to-find">        <title>The truth about wolves is hard to find</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-truth-about-wolves-is-hard-to-find</link>        <description>Some hunters claim wolves are killing too many deer and elk in northwestern Montana, but the facts indicate otherwise -- although those facts are easily lost in all the emotional rhetoric.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Christina Nealson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Montana deer and elk population</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolves in Northern Rockies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>anti-wolf activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wolf trapping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolf effects on ecosystem</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>predators</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>trappers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana wolf management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolves and livestock</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolf reintroduction</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-04-24T19:18:35Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/when-wolf-trapping-goes-viral">        <title>When wolf-trapping goes viral</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/when-wolf-trapping-goes-viral</link>        <description>When a trapper posted photos of himself with a dying wolf on Facebook, the resulting angry, hate-filled uproar on the Internet accomplished nothing useful.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Erin Zwiener</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>animal-rights movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho wolf management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Internet controversies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wolf trapping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Footloose Montana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Facebook</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>trappers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political rhetoric</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>anti-wolf activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pro-life movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political extremists</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-04-24T19:18:00Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.6/big-game-tag-auctions-raise-big-bucks-for-western-states">        <title>Big game tag auctions raise big bucks for Western states</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.6/big-game-tag-auctions-raise-big-bucks-for-western-states</link>        <description>Hunting tag auctions may get too pricey for a lot of Western hunters, but they also raise significant money for conservation projects.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Marian Lyman Kirst</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>wildlife management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>license tag auctions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bighorn sheep</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Big game hunting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western state wildlife conservation</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-04-11T17:34:22Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Infographic</dc:type>    </item>
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about the changing landscape of the Pacific Northwest in his new
book, Good Wood: Growth, Loss and
Renewal.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Annie Dawid</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Communities in Transition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Steven Radosevich</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Good Wood</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fishermen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grape growers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>anthologies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pacific Northwest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Siletz Indians</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tieton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>memoirs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>family history</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>timber</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>clear-cutting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coast Range</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Charlie Wakenshaw</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>teachers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oregon</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-30T16:47:59Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>National Wildlife Federation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>unplowed land</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>farmers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fallowed land</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>2012 Farm Bill</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>soil erosion</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fishermen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>budget cuts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Conservation Reserve Program</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ducks Unlimited</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>prairie chicken</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-10-11T17:57:08Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/nature-fierce-and-not-so-pretty">        <title>Nature fierce and not so pretty</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/nature-fierce-and-not-so-pretty</link>        <description>Spend enough time around a bird feeder, and you’ll realize that nature is
less like a poetic cartoon and more like a gritty crime novel by someone like
Elmore Leonard.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Dennis Hinkamp</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>anglers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public lands access</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hikers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>motorized recreation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mountain bikers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wilderness and Roadless Release Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-09-27T20:25:14Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.14/a-life-in-the-wild">        <title>A life in the wild</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.14/a-life-in-the-wild</link>        <description>Carter Niemeyer's memoir Wolfer is the entertaining story of a government trapper who loves wildlife - especially serious predators like wolves. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Hal Herring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Carter Niemeyer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>autobiography</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wolfer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>memoir</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>government trappers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nonfiction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western culture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-08-19T18:44:56Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/live-and-let-live">        <title>Live and let live</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/live-and-let-live</link>        <description>Mountain lions can be dangerous, but the risk is over-rated and well worth accepting for those of us who want to live in a truly wild West.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Dan Miller</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>risk</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wild animal attacks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife risks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mountain lions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cougars</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rafting</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-08-10T19:25:35Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.13/a-western-mystery-with-an-environmental-twist-a-review-of-buried-by-the-roan">        <title>A Western mystery with an environmental twist: a review of Buried by the Roan</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.13/a-western-mystery-with-an-environmental-twist-a-review-of-buried-by-the-roan</link>        <description>In Mark Stevens' second novel, Allison Coil, a tequila-drinking hunting guide, investigates a mysterious death in a remote landscape much sought after by oil and gas developers.  </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Erica Olsen</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>women detectives</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Buried by the Roan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mark Stevens</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>novels</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fiction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mysteries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mystery series</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-08-05T22:18:06Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.9/how-the-gray-wolf-lost-its-endangered-status-and-how-enviros-helped">        <title>How the gray wolf lost its endangered status -- and how enviros helped</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.9/how-the-gray-wolf-lost-its-endangered-status-and-how-enviros-helped</link>        <description>A strategic miscalculation by environmental groups helped spur the delisting of gray wolves in Montana and Idaho.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Hal Herring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone wolf reintroduction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Northern Rockies wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kieran Suckling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>elk population</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolf delisting</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-06-06T19:37:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.3/western-wildlife-commissions-on-the-chopping-block">        <title>Western wildlife commissions on the chopping block</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.3/western-wildlife-commissions-on-the-chopping-block</link>        <description>In Washington and New Mexico, state wildlife commissions could become a thing of the past.	</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico State Game Commission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western wildlife commissions</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-03-04T15:22:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.3/palin-politics-and-alaka-predator-control">        <title>Palin, politics, and Alaska predator control</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.3/palin-politics-and-alaka-predator-control</link>        <description>Alaska's politicians and scientists wrestle over how to manage big game and the predators that prey on it.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tracy Ross</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>aerial hunting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>predator control</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Corey Rossi</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alaska Department of Fish and Game</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sarah Palin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bear baiting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>moose</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alaskan wildlife management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>caribou</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-03-08T19:17:42Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.3/alaska-ho">        <title>Alaska ho!</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.3/alaska-ho</link>        <description>High Country News ventures into the rocky terrain of Alaska's wildlife politics.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>predator control</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sarah Palin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alaskan wildlife management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alaska politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Country News</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-02-16T20:58:13Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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