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	<title>Bert Gildart: Writer and Photographer</title>
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	<description>Glimpses From Bert &#38; Jane Gildart's Travel Adventures</description>
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		<title>Wildflowers &#8212; and Sightings of Endangered Bighorn &#8212; Combine to Create Perfect Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: The drama was high pitched, almost as exciting as watching two rams collide during mating season. But this contest was between a huge barrel cactus and a single ram, and if you’ve ever examined the sword-like thorns on the species, you’d understand the challenge.
According to Eric Hansen (a photographer friend I’ve mentioned often), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Music Charm Kangaroo Rats?</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2010/03/06/can-music-charm-kangaroo-rats</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart:  Whether it was the superb guitar playing, the warmth from our night fire, or the small pieces of peanuts we had apparently dropped on the ground I can’t say for sure, but one of the factors must have been responsible for the stealthy appearance of one of the desert’s most secretive creatures.
Though Janie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disappearing Habitat Mandates Bizarre Nest For These Burrowing Owls</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Throughout the years, Goodyear Tires have probably been used in many ways, but perhaps the most unique is the use an abandoned tractor tire is seeing just outside California&#8217;s  Sonny Bono Wildlife Refuge. Right now, just a few miles from the refuge located near the Salton  Sea, a pair of burrowing owls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Enhanced Detail, Rich Charpentier Advises High Pass Filtration</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2010/02/23/for-enhanced-detail-rich-charpentier-advises-high-pass-filtration</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Here’s a technique I learned yesterday from Rich Charpentier, a good friend who provides informative photo seminars from his base in Prescott, Arizona. As well Rich has a print shop located not far from the town’s historic courtyard center.
Right now Rich’s class to Vulture Ghost Town is full, but you can still get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging Desert Lilies Suggest Spectacular Spring in Store for Anza Borrego</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2010/02/21/emerging-desert-lilies-suggest-spectacular-spring-in-store-for-anza-borrego</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: One of the desert’s most celebrated wildflowers is now emerging in areas surrounding us here at Pegleg, a campground within the sprawling Anza Borrego  Desert State   Park.
Known as Desert Lily various people from our campground have surrounded sprouting leaves with circles of rocks to protect them from the many footfalls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sighting of Desert Bighorn Lamb Topped Day of Superlatives at Anza Borrego</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2010/02/18/sighting-of-desert-bighorn-lamb-topped-day-of-superlatives-at-anza-borrego</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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©Bert Gildart: For Eric Hansen and me the day could not have started out better! About a half hour after departing our camp at Pegleg, we found ourselves driving through a rugged portion of Anza  Borrego Desert  Park on our way to Indian Hill (also a rugged). Though the sun was just barely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Phenomena at Anza Borrego Desert State Park</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2010/02/14/more-phenomena-at-anza-borrego-desert-state-park</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Since my posting about fairy shrimp, I have learned more about this tiny crustacean by visiting with several of the volunteer naturalists at Anza Borrego  Desert State   Park. As I explained recently, rains dissolved the cyst that protects the species from the fiery sun and the desiccating winds. But what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rain at Anza Borrego Desert State Park Works Magic for Fairy Shrimp</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2010/02/12/rain-at-anza-borrego-desert-state-park-works-magic-for-fairy-shrimp</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Once every five to six years, California’s Anza Borrego  Desert State   Park is deluged with rain water and if it pools, a miracle occurs. Embedded in the playa of Ancient Lake Borrego, the lake from which Clark Lake (also dry) eventually derived, tiny crustaceans break free of their cysts. Specifically, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archaeoastronomy Weekend at Anza Borrego</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2010/02/08/archaeoastronomy-weekend-at-anza-borrego</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: This past weekend Anza Borrego Desert State Park in southern California presented its annual Archaeoastronomy weekend, opening its museums for visitor tours – and hosting a tribe of Native Americans.
The group is known as the Paipai and they hale from the Santa Catarina area of the Baja Pennisula, which is located about a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Say Endangered Species Protection for the American Pika &#8220;Not Warranted&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2010/02/05/endangered-species-act-protection-for-the-american-pika-say-some-is-not-warranted</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2010/02/05/endangered-species-act-protection-for-the-american-pika-say-some-is-not-warranted#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bert Gildart: Two years ago I wrote a major story for magazine produced by The Wilderness Society about global warming. At the time I quoted Dr. Erik Beever, one of the premier scientists working on the subject. He was concerned about the effect rising temperatures would have on pika, a tiny member of the rabbit [...]]]></description>
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