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	<title>VallesCaldera.com - The independent news source about the Valles Caldera &#187; Future Management of the Valles Caldera</title>
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	<description>Featuring visitor&#039;s guide, maps, 360° panoramas, vistas from air &#38; space, books, movies, and information about the Caldera&#039;s geology, wildlife, and history.  Located in the Jemez Mountains of Northern New Mexico, the &#34;Yellowstone of the Southwest&#34; features the Valle Grande, Redondo Peak (elev. 11,254), the East Fork of the Jemez River, the San Antonio River, hot springs, thousands of elk, hunting, fishing, and hundreds of square miles of stunning natural beauty a mile and a half high.</description>
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		<title>New interim executive director appointed; will six-figure salaries keep flowing at the taxpayer-owned Valles Caldera National Preserve?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dennis Trujillo, who has served as preserve manager of the Valles Caldera National Preserve since 2002, has been named interim executive director, according to the Valles Caldera National Preserve Board of Trustees. Mr. Trujillo will fill the vacancy created by Gary Bratcher, who recently resigned as executive director of the Preserve. There was no word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big trout on the Caldera this year, but access fees remain higher than the average Major League Baseball ticket</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 22:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We saw the following report on the &#8220;New Mexico Fan Page&#8221; on Facebook: GOT TROUT? Here&#8217;s the latest from Valles Caldera &#8211; Largest caught last week: 20-inch brown on the San Antonio and a 13-inch rainbow on the East Fork. Best reports are on black beetles, black ants, red humpy, and hoppers. Fishing costs for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Mexican op-ed: &#8220;Caldera no longer place of heart&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 18:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thor Sigstedt, a Santa Fe County artist and landscape photographer, wrote the following op-ed in today&#8217;s Santa Fe New Mexican, in which he advocates for an end to the Valles Caldera Trust land-management experiment: I read today about Valles Caldera and thought I would put in my 2 cents worth, as I have thought about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caldera trustees announce that Bratcher is out as exec. director; New Mexican calls move &#8220;more than a nail in the coffin&#8221; for land management experiment at VCNP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 18:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raymond Loretto, the chairman of the Valles Caldera Board of Trustees, announced today that Gary Bratcher will be leaving his post as executive director of the Valles Caldera National Preserve on May 31. Bratcher has served as the executive director of the Preserve since Dec. of 2008, for which he has been paid an annual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Bingaman: Trustees&#8217; endorsement of proposed transfer of Caldera to Park Service &#8220;helps our chances&#8221; of securing passage of legislation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 18:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a press conference Monday from Capitol Hill, U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman discussed the Valles Caldera National Preserve Management Act &#8212; legislation that would transfer management of the VCNP to the National Park Service. Click here to hear his remarks about this bill, which last week was endorsed by the Valles Caldera Board of Trustees. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Bingaman applauds Caldera Board of Trustees for endorsing change in management to National Park Service</title>
		<link>http://VallesCaldera.com/archives/3341</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 18:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a YouTube video to his constituents in which he reported on the legislative activities with which he was involved over the past week, U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) conveyed his appreciation to the Valles Caldera National Preserve Board of Trustees for issuing a public endorsement Wednesday of the legislation that Bingaman introduced that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caldera Board of Trustees publicly rebuked by its own executive director for endorsing Park Service control of Valles Caldera National Preserve</title>
		<link>http://VallesCaldera.com/archives/3313</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 20:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seemingly biting the hand that feeds him, the executive director of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, Gary Bratcher, was quoted in the Santa Fe New Mexican on Friday publicly criticizing the Valles Caldera Board of Trustees&#8217; newly announced support for legislation currently in the U.S. Senate that would transfer control of the Preserve to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CALDERA TRUSTEES CALL FOR PARK SERVICE TO ASSUME MANAGEMENT OF PRESERVE, BOARD CHAIRMAN TESTIFIES ON CAPITOL HILL</title>
		<link>http://VallesCaldera.com/archives/3290</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 04:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a remarkable turnaround after years of displaying stalwart opposition to the idea that the Valles Caldera National Preserve should become part of the National Park Service, the Valles Caldera Board of Trustees announced that it now supports the Park Service assuming management of the Preserve as well as the dissolution of the Trust itself, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate subcommittee to hear testimony on Caldera legislation Wed. in Washington; Trust chairman to testify</title>
		<link>http://VallesCaldera.com/archives/3279</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 03:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legislation that would transfer management of the Valles Caldera National Preserve to the National Park Service will be considered on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, May 11, at 12:30 PM MDT, in Senate hearing room SD-366. The bill, dubbed the &#8220;Valles Caldera National Preserve Management Act,&#8221; which was reintroduced by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) in March [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Club: &#8220;Citizen efforts protecting Valles Caldera&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://VallesCaldera.com/archives/3271</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 00:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article was featured in the web site of the Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club this month: Citizen efforts protecting Valles Caldera National Preserve By Tom Ribe, Executive Director, Caldera Action The yawning expanse of the Valles Caldera National Preserve in north-central New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains has drawn generations to its streams, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Mexican letter: &#8220;Far-sighted senators&#8221; support Caldera legislation</title>
		<link>http://VallesCaldera.com/archives/3264</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, a letter written by Staci Stevens of Santa Fe was printed in the Santa Fe New Mexican: Far-sighted senators Recently, Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall introduced legislation to transfer the management of the Valles Caldera National Preserve to the National Park Service. As anyone who has been to the caldera can testify, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caldera Trustees show lack of respect for working people of Northern New Mexico by again scheduling their public meeting for when those with day jobs cannot attend</title>
		<link>http://VallesCaldera.com/archives/3248</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first of this year&#8217;s three legally-mandated meetings of the Valles Caldera National Preserve Board of Trustees will be held on Tuesday, April 19, 2011, at 9:00 AM, at the Valles Caldera National Preserve offices in Jemez Springs. An agenda for this meeting has not yet been posted on the official government-run Preserve web site. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bingaman champions reintroduced legislation to bring Caldera into Park Service during Senate speech</title>
		<link>http://VallesCaldera.com/archives/3242</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Senate floor speech, New Mexico&#8217;s senior U.S. senator, Jeff Bingaman, promoted the legislation that he reintroduced last week that would bring the Valles Caldera under the leadership of the National Park Service (read this legislation here). Bingaman (also speaking for Sen. Tom Udall) submitted the following remarks into the Congressional Record: Mr. President, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renewed fight for NM&#8217;s scenic crown jewel erupts on Capitol Hill: Bingaman and Udall reintroduce legislation to bring Valles Caldera into Park Service as Coburn submits bill to strip all appropriations for Caldera</title>
		<link>http://VallesCaldera.com/archives/3218</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A legislative clash regarding the future of the Valles Caldera has emerged in Washington as two bills have been introduced in the U.S. Senate that would have starkly different outcomes for the Jemez Mountains: one would transfer the Valles Caldera National Preserve to the National Park Service, while another would entirely eliminate all federal appropriations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New alternatives for public access and forest restoration at the Valles Caldera unveiled; public urged to provide feedback on potential plans</title>
		<link>http://VallesCaldera.com/archives/3208</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valles Caldera National Preserve staff conducted three public meetings within the past week in which they unveiled: Alternatives for a proposed public use and access plan (PUAP) that would expand public access to the Preserve Alternatives for landscape restoration and management for the Preserve in the context of the Southwest Jemez Mountains Collaborative Forest Restoration [...]]]></description>
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