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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15611">        <title>Writing a comment letter? Better make it good</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15611</link>        <description>The Bureau of Land Management is tightening its standards
on what it considers worthwhile, "substantive" public comments from
citizen activists</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Public Lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public comment</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal agencies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental impact
statements</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming Outdoor Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The
Wilderness Society</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bruce Pendery</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Environmental Policy
Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tova Woyciecho</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-05-16T23:10:54Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.20/washington-ecoterrorists-topple-towers">        <title>Washington eco-saboteurs topple towers</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.20/washington-ecoterrorists-topple-towers</link>        <description>The Earth Liberation Front claims responsibility for toppling radio towers north of Seattle, but no one really knows who the culprit is.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>M.L. Lyke</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>KRKO radio towers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>eco-sabotage</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>monkey wrenching</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Earth Liberation Front</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Citizens to Preserve the Upper Snohomish River Valley</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-11-29T22:14:39Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/16387">        <title>War on (eco) terror extends to the West</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/16387</link>        <description>Four people charged with arson in the 1998 Vail ski resort
fires in Colorado are among 13 defendants indicted in Oregon and
accused of "domestic terrorism."</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Stephanie Paige Ogburn</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oregon attorney general’s office</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>eco-terrorism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>domestic terrorism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vail ski resort fires</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>vandalism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animal rights groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Patriot Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Craig Weinerman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>arson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>anti-abortion protests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Shelley Shannon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>trials</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>crime</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>arrests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-12T23:28:14Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.5/the-universe-on-blacktop">        <title>The Universe on Blacktop </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.5/the-universe-on-blacktop</link>        <description>A Colorado family finds satisfaction -- and cash -- in scavenging metal for recycling.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laura Pritchett </dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>parents and children</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>aluminum recycling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>recycling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dumpster diving</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Laura Pritchett</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>scrap yards</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:15:21Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.7/the-most-influential-conservationist-youve-never-heard-of">        <title>The most influential conservationist you've never heard of</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.7/the-most-influential-conservationist-youve-never-heard-of</link>        <description>The Sierra Club's Debbie Sease has spent three decades on Capitol Hill, fighting for the West.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>John Aloysius Farrell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington, D.C.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Debbie Sease</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>David Foreman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sierra Club</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>lobbyists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Wilderness Society</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tim Mahoney</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Earth First!</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-05-09T15:15:54Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/278/14856">        <title>Supreme Court reins in citizens' right to sue</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/278/14856</link>        <description>A recent Supreme Court ruling in a Utah wilderness lawsuit
will limit the ability of citizens to sue the government over how
its agencies manage natural resources</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Public Lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Supreme Court</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Earthjustice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Southern Utah
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                    <dc:subject>Antonin Scalia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>citizen lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Leshy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>off-road vehicles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior
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                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Land Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:58:03Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.8/retirees-join-environmentalists-in-fighting-arizona-copper-mine">        <title>Retirees join environmentalists in fighting Arizona copper mine</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.8/retirees-join-environmentalists-in-fighting-arizona-copper-mine</link>        <description>The conservative, golf-playing retirees of Queen Valley, Ariz., are determined to stop a giant copper mine.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Kari Lydersen</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Superior</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arizona Mining Reform Coalition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arizona</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Resolution Copper Mine</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tailings</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BHP Billiton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>block cave mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rio Tinto</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John McCain</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land-swap bills</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>waste rock</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>groundwater pumping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Queen Valley</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-05-18T14:58:57Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/295/15410">        <title>Public-lands ranchers: Should you trust this man?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/295/15410</link>        <description>Paul Larmer interviews longtime activist Andy Kerr, director of the National Public Lands Grazing Campaign, about grazing buyouts and the future of public-lands ranching</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing buyouts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>permits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Public Lands Grazing Campaign</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Andy Kerr</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cattle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranching</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:13Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16179">        <title>Painting for progress</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16179</link>        <description>Artist Joan Hoffman pours her love of wilderness into her
paintings, and uses her art as a way to fight for the
environment</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jennie Lay</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joan Hoffman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>painters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>artists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>landscape art</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>camping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>river
rafting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Steamboat Springs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Petaluma</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yosemite Artist in Residence</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nature Conservancy of Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Southern Utah Wilderness</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-12-15T16:38:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/277/14820">        <title>Oil money rules in the West's mini-Middle East</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/277/14820</link>        <description>Two Democratic governors – Dave Freudenthal of
Wyoming and Bill Richardson of New Mexico – find themselves
caught between the money that comes from the energy industry and
the environmental impacts of oil and gas development</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Krza</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Elected Officials</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dave
Freudenthal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Richardson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>renewable energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western Resource Advocates</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Otero Mesa</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Powder River Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming Outdoor Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dan Heilig</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Randy
Udall</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Ni</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:57:50Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.1/native-power-in-tucson">        <title>Native power in Tucson</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.1/native-power-in-tucson</link>        <description>HCN sponsors a conference on energy development and environmental activism on the Hopi and Navajo reservations; visitors; planning; corrections.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer and Jodi Peterson </dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>oil and gas development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land use planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paonia, Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hopi Reservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Navajo Nation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Country News</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:04:13Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/monkey-wrenchers-keep-on-keeping-on">        <title>Monkey wrenchers keep on keeping on</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/monkey-wrenchers-keep-on-keeping-on</link>        <description>Ed Abbey's pugnacious spirit lives on in eco-activists like Tim DeChristopher, who quietly sabotaged a Utah BLM energy-lease auction. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Peter Shelton</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>civil disobedience</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dave Foreman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Katie Lee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM lease auctions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>monkey wrenching</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tim DeChristopher</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ed Abbey</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-07-09T15:14:51Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.5/innovate-part-ii">        <title>INNOVATE, Part II</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.5/innovate-part-ii</link>        <description>Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking: Green detective, Healthcare for the hard up, Developing to stop development, Low carbon brews and more.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson, Ray Ring, Terray Sylvester, Jonathan Thompson, </dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>land trusts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho Conservation League</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Thornton Ranch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>recycling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>high school students</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Belgium Brewing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>open space</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mercury emissions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Klamath River Early College of the Redwoods</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>investigative journalism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mercury pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jeff Lebesch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>news Web sites</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Knight Foundation News Callenge</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Santa Fe growth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sherri Rice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>affordable healthcare</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Geneva Wiki</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Bullard, R-CALF</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>www.spot.us</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>college preparation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jenn Orgolini</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>David Cohn</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>green housing developments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sustainability</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists Access to Healthcare Network</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gold mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ted Harrison</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>reporters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Commonweal Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Galisteo Basin Preserve</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>uninsured Americans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>corporate meatpackers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kim Jordan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>education Justin Hayes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cattlemen’s groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>contaminated fish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>big ag</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native American schools</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>green companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yurok Reservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>country of origin labeling</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:16:51Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/home-on-the-range">        <title>Home on the range</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/home-on-the-range</link>        <description>In one Montana family, it's a father-daughter Thanksgiving tradition to do things like build makeshift ramps to help trapped wild animals escape from stock tanks.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Marian Lyman Kirst</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Western families</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rescuing wildlife from stock tanks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rural life</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>holiday traditions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Thanksgiving</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>autobiography</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>monkey wrenching</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>childhood memories</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>father-daughter traditions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>stock tanks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>memoir</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-12-06T22:33:59Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/greens-need-to-occupy-the-occupy-movement">        <title>Greens need to occupy the Occupy movement</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/greens-need-to-occupy-the-occupy-movement</link>        <description>Today's activists need to get more involved in protesting the environmental profiteering that is destroying our planet.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tim Lydon</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Powder River Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>protest movements</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>corporate power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>air pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bristol Bay salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Exxon Valdez</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>clear-cuts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>timber companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arch Coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pebble Mine</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alaska fisheries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Peabody Coal Company</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Occupy Wall Street</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal power plants</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil spills</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-12-20T18:26:22Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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