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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/264/14430">        <title>Wilderness deals held hostage in salmon
struggle</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/264/14430</link>        <description>When Idaho salmon advocates challenged the state’s
farm-irrigation system, Norm Semanko held them off by taking a
couple of wilderness deals hostage</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rocky Barker</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Lawsuits And Water Rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Norm Semanko</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Snake River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species
Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coalition for Idaho Water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho Rivers United</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>American
River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Wildlife Federation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho Conservation League</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness legislation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sen. Mike Crapo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>irrigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:55:35Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15444">        <title>Troubled — and shallow — waters on the West's largest river</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15444</link>        <description>The Columbia River Basin's serious drought means a hard
choice between fish and hydropower</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Nijhuis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>water shortages</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Snake River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Christine Gregoire</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Columbia Basin Water Transactions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Columbia River Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington Department of Ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ted</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Andrew Purkey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rivers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Weather</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kulon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bonneville Power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>runoff</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drought</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydropower</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Program</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:23Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/283/15016">        <title>Tribes ‘buy in’ to restore their
river</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/283/15016</link>        <description>Oregon’s Warm Spring Indians become co-owners of the
Pelton-Round Butte Dam Complex and hope to restore salmon runs on
the Deschutes River</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rachel Odell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Reservations And Economic Development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Warm Springs Reservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Deschutes River Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Crooked River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Metolius River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lake
Billy Chinook</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pelton-Round Butte Dam Complex</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Manion</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Portland General Electric</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Federal Energy Regulatory
Commissi</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:21:14Z</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/articles/16935">        <title>The Klamath dams by the numbers</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/articles/16935</link>        <description>A new report shows salmon-killing dams would cost less to
remove than to keep.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Erin Halcomb</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Dams And Water Supply Projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Klamath</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>FERC</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fish ladders</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>relicensing</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:40:04Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/articles/16932">        <title>The Gila's Monster</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/articles/16932</link>        <description>Along the upper Gila in New Mexico, conservationists and
the state squabble over managing the river's water.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Erin Halcomb</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Dams And Water Supply Projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gila River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water supply
project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wells</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:40:04Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/294/15362">        <title>The best-laid plans</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/294/15362</link>        <description>It’s high time Arizona realized it’s a desert,
and has to share the Colorado River with six other dry Western
states</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Greg Hanscom</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Dams And Water Supply Projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Central Arizona Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Phoenix</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tucson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water supply
projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Matt Jenkins</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Country News</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arizona Republic</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>reporters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Morris Udall</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bruce Babbitt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>weather</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>canals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>groundwater</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>irrigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado River Compact</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drought</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado River Bas</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:56Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/303/15702">        <title>The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most
Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern
Environmentalism</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/303/15702</link>        <description>In The Battle over Hetch Hetchy,
history professor Robert Righter chronicles the damming of the
Hetch Hetchy Valley in California’s Yosemite National
Park</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Parks And Monuments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dams And Water Supply Projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hetch Hetchy Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yosemite National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water
projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>national parks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Robert Righter</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Southern Methodist University</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:25:53Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/304/15720">        <title>Super-sized dam could be a cash register for California farmers</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/304/15720</link>        <description>The Bureau of Reclamation has agreed to deliver more water
to California’s Central Valley Project than it actually has,
and is considering raising Shasta Dam to provide it</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Hilary Watts</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>irrigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>CALFED</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Natural</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Resour</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Westlands Water District</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George Miller</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hal Candee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Shasta Dam</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Los Vaqueros Dam</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>reservoirs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water supply projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dams And Water Supply Projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Reclamation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Francisco Bay Delta</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Central Valley Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water sales</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Friant Dam</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-30T22:28:04Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.6/muddy-waters-silt-and-the-slow-demise-of-glen-canyon-dam/siltation-expert-we-need-more-dams">        <title>Siltation expert: We need more dams</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.6/muddy-waters-silt-and-the-slow-demise-of-glen-canyon-dam/siltation-expert-we-need-more-dams</link>        <description>George Annandale, a siltation expert, says the West needs more dams to satisfy its thirst.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>silt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water supply</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sedimentation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western reservoirs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drought</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-04-12T22:27:43Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.6/muddy-waters-silt-and-the-slow-demise-of-glen-canyon-dam/sedimentation-a-building-problem-in-the-wests-reservoirs">        <title>Sedimentation is a building problem in the West's reservoirs</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.6/muddy-waters-silt-and-the-slow-demise-of-glen-canyon-dam/sedimentation-a-building-problem-in-the-wests-reservoirs</link>        <description>The West's reservoirs are waging a constant battle against rising levels of sediment.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Weiser</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>U.S. Army Corps of Engineers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>silt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sedimentation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western reservoirs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Reclamation</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-04-26T20:15:51Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/338/16776">        <title>Salmon Justice</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/338/16776</link>        <description>Judge Jim Redden has given the Bush administration an
ultimatum: Submit a viable plan for salmon restoration, or face the
possible removal of four dams on the lower Snake River.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ken Olsen</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>National Marine Fisheries Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>judiciary</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Army</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Redden</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judiciary</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydroelectric</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>law professors</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>University of Oregon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dams and water supply projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bonneville Power Administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>lower Snake River dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dam breaching</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oregon Legislature</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mary Wood</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-26T23:00:52Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.13/revival-or-dam-nation">        <title>Revival or dam-nation?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.13/revival-or-dam-nation</link>        <description>The push for alternative power could spawn a rush for small hydropower projects in the Northwest.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Joshua Zaffos</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Snohomish Public Utility District</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>small hydropower projects</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>alternative energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:50:47Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/articles/17560">        <title>Primer 4: Water</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/articles/17560</link>        <description>Former HCN publisher concludes that those who live in the
West must accept its unpredictability.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ed Marston</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>primer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>flooding</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:27:33Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/articles/17161">        <title>Pipe dreams</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/articles/17161</link>        <description>Leaky irrigation ditches in Washington’s Methow
Valley have made the desert bloom, at the expense of endangered
salmon.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Eve Rickert</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Lawsuits And Water Rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>irrigation ditches</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wells</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>irrigation
districts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>spawning</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:39:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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