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	<title>Bert Gildart: Writer and Photographer &#187; Natural History/Conservation</title>
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	<description>Glimpses From Bert &#38; Jane Gildart&#039;s Travel Adventures</description>
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		<title>What Happened?  This Brobdingnagian Landscape May Blow Your Mind</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/02/08/what-happened-this-brobdingnagian-landscape-may-blow-your-mind</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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©Bert Gildart:  If there is a boulder field in Joshua Tree or one of the other national parks that has a greater &#8220;wow&#8221; factor  than does this one,  I can’t recall it.
We saw this immense scattering or rocks while hiking in Anza Borrego Desert State Park’s Indian Hill country.  This field of rock stretched for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Much Looking Required to Find Anza Borrego&#8217;s Spring Flowers</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/02/04/much-looking-required-to-find-anza-borrego-spring-flowers</link>
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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>Anza Borrego&#8217;s Palm Canyon Trail &#8212; Always Compelling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Just minutes after starting our hike up Palm Canyon, Bill directed our attention to a cliff wall, high overhead.
“Bighorns,” he said. “Two of them.”

 

The sheep were at some distance, but it was my thought that if I could make the sheep seem at home in this  beautiful canyon then my picture could be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glacier Icons &#8212; Guaranteed to be A Winner</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/01/09/glacier-icons-guaranteed-to-be-a-winner</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Glacier National Park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Here at Pegleg the New Year was ushered in with barely a peep, but shortly thereafter all sorts of good news begin filtering in.  Based on news from the first week of 2012 this could be a pretty good year for Janie and me.



First, I’ve just received an advanced copy of my new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear or Procreation! What Might the Monster Rock Snake Represent?</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/30/fear-or-procreation-what-might-the-monster-rock-snake-represent</link>
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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>THE CENTURY PLANT &#8212; A SPECIES FOR ALL SEASONS</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/19/the-century-plant-a-species-for-all-seasons</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Natural History/Conservation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Several days ago on a hike through Moonlight Canyon, I thought I saw the last species to flower for the season, the fuchsia.  It was a surprise, then, to walk the nature trail at the Visitor Center of the Anza Borrego Desert Nature Center and see one of this region’s most conspicuous of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving In a Land Where Everything Either Sticks, Stings or Bites</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/18/surviving-in-a-land-where-everything-either-sticks-stings-or-bites</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/18/surviving-in-a-land-where-everything-either-sticks-stings-or-bites#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/15/christmas-at-bill-larrys#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National Lands]]></category>
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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>Slot Canyons—Anza Borrego is a Park of Much Diversity</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/13/slot-canyons%e2%80%94anza-borrego-is-a-park-of-much-diversity</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Anza Borrego Desert Park provides wonderful examples of erosion but little is more dramatic than the park’s slot canyons.  Fortunately for us here at Peg Leg, trailheads are within a short drive.
My companions were Don and Nancy Dennison, and we share a love not only of traveling in Airstreams (they just purchased a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violence on Montana’s Wildhorse Island</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/10/28/violence-on-montana%e2%80%99s-wildhorse-island</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/10/28/violence-on-montana%e2%80%99s-wildhorse-island#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Throughout North America, many species of wildlife engage in ritualistic contests to determine male order of dominance during the mating season.  In the animal world, few contests are more vigorous nor is the ritual more complex than among mountain sheep.  I have followed sheep throughout much of North America and have always considered [...]]]></description>
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