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	<title>Bert Gildart: Writer and Photographer &#187; National Lands</title>
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	<description>Glimpses From Bert &#38; Jane Gildart&#039;s Travel Adventures</description>
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		<title>Much Looking Required to Find Anza Borrego&#8217;s Spring Flowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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©Bert Gildart:  Yesterday, Janie and I hiked to an incredible area in the southern part of Anza Borrego Desert State Park looking for pictographs, which after several years of searching we finally found.  Don&#8217;t expect a detailed map to the area, but I will report on this  incredible Native American art form in my next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear or Procreation! What Might the Monster Rock Snake Represent?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Five-hundred years from now – after man has rebounded from a devastating decline in population associated with much tragic and social unrest &#8212; archaeologists will reemerge to wonder about those who lived in the distant past. (Come on, play along for a minute.)
They begin by excavating, and because deserts are always so productive, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving In a Land Where Everything Either Sticks, Stings or Bites</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: In a land where everything either sticks, stings or bites,  Bill (see previous post) and I decided we would return to the Moonlight Canyon trail and see if we could learn more about what &#8212; and how &#8212; sheep eat. Can they actually digest thorns?

 
Essentially because this area in Anza Borrego Desert State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas at Bill &amp; Larry&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/15/christmas-at-bill-larrys</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Snow covered the Vallecito Mountains as we made our drive to Agua Calienta to see our friends Bill and Larry.

 

Janie and I meet the two men about four years ago and discovered that we shared similar interests and an interest in acquiring skills we all admired.  Larry is a gourmet cook, Bill a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moon Rise and the Beauty of Night Skies</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/11/moon-rise-and-the-beauty-of-night-skies</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/11/moon-rise-and-the-beauty-of-night-skies#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Last night as I was returning from my chore of loading up our four, six gallon water jugs to replenish part of the 40 gallons of water we seem to use each week, the moon began to rise.
Before I had gone far palm trees began to border the moon, reminding us that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Devoted to Tradition we EXPECT to find PEGLEG&#8217;S GOLD</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National Lands]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Not far where we’re camped there’s a marker stipulating that if we are here hoping to find Pegleg’s gold mine then we must add ten rocks to a designated pile.  Because we believe in legends, by now we’ve most likely added several dozen rocks to the ever growing heap.

 
Folks like us who search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C M Russell Wildlife Refuge Provides Elk With Magnificent Stage</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/09/30/c-m-russell-wildlife-refuge-provides-elk-with-magnificent-stage</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/09/30/c-m-russell-wildlife-refuge-provides-elk-with-magnificent-stage#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Montana Photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: I am a few days behind in the dates ascribed to my posts, essentially because we have based ourselves in areas that have no connections, specifically Zortman,  Montana.  The settlement is located in the Little Rockies and for this posting it must be noted that we are but a 40 minute drive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bear Paw Battlefield Helps Amend Tragic Policy</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/09/29/bear-paw-battlefield-helps-amend-tragic-policy</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/09/29/bear-paw-battlefield-helps-amend-tragic-policy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Montana Photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart:  Seasons vary dramatically from year to year, and for the past few days we’ve been enjoying weather that is like that of a mid July day. On this late September day, temperatures peaked at 93 and we parked (not camped &#8212; mind you) our Airstream so that we could take advantage of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana&#8217;s Wild &amp; Scenic Missouri River</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/08/27/montanas-wild-scenic-missouri-river</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/08/27/montanas-wild-scenic-missouri-river#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Montana Photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart:  For the past seven days Janie and I have been floating Montana’s Wild &#38; Scenic Missouri River, one of the most isolated areas remaining in the United States.  We were joined by our good friends Adam and Susan Maffei.

 
The trip is not for everyone. During our journey of about 110 miles we saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charcoal Kilns Were Once &#8220;Beehives&#8221; of Activity</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/08/03/charcoal-kilns-were-once-beehives-of-activity</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/08/03/charcoal-kilns-were-once-beehives-of-activity#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Montana Photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: If you have seen charcoal kilns before, quite likely it was while visiting Death Valley National Park. They look like huge beehives, and they were once used in the park for converting wood to charcoal. Though the charcoal then had to be transported from high in the Panamint Mountains to Death  Valley [...]]]></description>
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