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	<title>Bert Gildart: Writer and Photographer &#187; Alaska</title>
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	<description>Glimpses From Bert &#38; Jane Gildart&#039;s Travel Adventures</description>
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		<title>Arctic National Wildlife Refuge now 50 Years Old, But Challenges lie Ahead</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/02/28/arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-now-50-years-old-but-challenges-lie-ahead</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Fifty years ago this past December President Eisenhower created the Arctic  National Wildlife  Range “for the purpose of preserving unique wildlife, wilderness and recreational values.” It was the first time in American history that an entire ecosystem was granted federal protection.
Nineteen million acres were set aside ranging from Kaktovik in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Winter Solstice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Happy Winter Solstice, and this year as so many probably know, it was an especially eventful one. For the first time in about 2,000 years winter solstice coincided with a total lunar eclipse.
Most living in my neck of the woods, meaning Montana’s Flathead  Valley, probably didn&#8217;t get too excited about the phenomena  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Eskimo Indian Olympics &#8212; Story</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2010/07/08/world-eskimo-indian-olympics-story</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: This month’s issue of Native Peoples Magazine features a story of mine about the World Eskimo Indian Olympics (WEIO). The magazine is on the newsstand and is now reminding me of what an adventure Janie and I had last July in Fairbanks,  Alaska, where the event is held annually.
The story was illustrated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas From the Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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MERRY CHRISTMAS

Many of our friends have experienced great difficulties this past year, suggesting that we must make each new day count for something, and enjoy it to the fullest. Those to whom I’m referring know who they are, and Janie and I wish them only the very best.

 
Fortunately, all the children in our extended family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emmonak, Alaska Is A Long Way From Home</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/11/05/emmonak-alaska-is-a-long-way-from-home</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: It&#8217;s a long way from my son&#8217;s home in Kalispell, Montana, to Emmonak, Alaska, but that&#8217;s where David worked this past summer. Though he initially took the job because there was so very little employment locally for those in the construction field, as it turned out, not only was the summer profitable, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicken Gold Camp and Mike Busby&#8217;s Historic Pedro Dredge</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/10/05/chicken-gold-camp-and-mike-busbys-historic-pedro-dredge</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Over the years of exploring Alaska  Janie and I have met a number of people who have managed to forge a life in some of the state&#8217;s most unlikely areas. One such settlement is Chicken, and not just anyone could have succeeded here; but forty years ago Mike  Busby began generating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Satisfying Life&#8217;s Basic Needs Is Often A Challenge &#8211; Even in National Parks</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/09/14/satisfying-lifes-basic-needs-is-often-a-challenge-even-in-national-parks</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Long ago in a wildlife management course, I learned that all life has three basic needs. It must have food, water and shelter.
In Canada&#8217;s Jasper National Park, for some species, these needs are met, but not without some difficulty.
To acquire the much-needed water bighorn sheep must wade through a maze of traffic, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back Home &#8212; But Alaska Is Still On Our Minds</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/09/07/back-home-but-alaska-is-still-on-our-minds</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Because access in Canada to the Internet was prohibitively expensive (about $800 each month) our blogs have been made a day or two after the fact. Postings of our travels could only be made from campgrounds offering WiFi, and they weren&#8217;t always available.
That worked fairly well, but, generally, connectivity was more like dial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season of the Elk &#8211; Night of the Grizzly</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/09/02/season-of-the-elk-night-of-the-grizzly</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: It&#8217;s mating season for elk throughout the Rockies, and bull elk are now making their presence known. Several nights ago, while camped at Whistler Campground just outside of the townsite of Jasper, Alberta, Janie looked out the window of our Airstream and saw four cow elk being herded by a royal bull elk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Section From Liard Hot Springs to Stone MountainThe Most Beautiful Segment of the Alaska Highway? Some Say It Is</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/08/30/is-the-section-from-liard-hot-springs-to-stone-mountainthe-most-beautiful-segment-of-the-alaska-highway-some-say-it-is</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Though we&#8217;ve found the entire length of the Alcan Highway to be fascinating, certain segments have their proponents. Several travelers have said they particularly enjoy the segment from Liard Hot Springs, south (or north, if you&#8217;re traveling that way) to Stone   Mountain Provincial Park, a distance of about 200 miles.


To See [...]]]></description>
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