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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>
	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>In Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, the Beringia Center Allows us to Relive Personal Adventures From an Ancient Landscape</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: In Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, there&#8217;s an interpretative center that has so influenced us that we have made summer-long boat trips into the area it represents. Once this ancient area connected Russia and Alaska and the center interprets that great connection.
The land is known by several names. Some call it the Berring Land Strip, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections On The Alcan From Tok, Alaska</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/07/02/reflections-on-the-alcan-from-tok-alaska</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Tok,  Alaska, where Susan Butcher trained her dogs to compete&#8211;and win&#8211;in the famous Iditarod race is not a bad place to spend one&#8217;s birthday, as I&#8217;m doing today. Many know that it is my birthday and have written&#8211;or called&#8211;to inform me that if I were a dog, I would be hundreds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow and Easy&#8211;That&#8217;s the Way To Travel the Alaska Highway!</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/06/28/slow-and-easy-thats-the-way-to-travel-the-alaska-highway</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/06/28/slow-and-easy-thats-the-way-to-travel-the-alaska-highway#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart:  The Alaska Highway is a 1,597-mile-long two-lane highway that stretches from Dawson Creek to Fairbanks. Much of the area through which it passes remains similar to the wilderness Canadians and the U.S. Army plowed through in 1942, taking 11 months to complete the monumental project of creating a road. Through primitive by today&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is It a Black Bear or a Grizzly Bear?</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/06/26/is-it-a-black-bear-or-a-grizzly-bear</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/06/26/is-it-a-black-bear-or-a-grizzly-bear#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart:  At first Janie and I both thought we were seeing another black bear, but as we pulled our truck and Airstream onto the side of the Alaskan Highway, we both changed our mind.
&#8220;That could be a small grizzly,&#8221; Janie said. And I had to agree, despite the fact I thought it unusual for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bear Cubs Now &#8220;Battling&#8221; In Jasper National Park</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/06/22/bear-cubs-now-battling-in-jasper-national-park</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/06/22/bear-cubs-now-battling-in-jasper-national-park#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart:  &#8220;Bears,&#8221; Janie said. &#8220;Black bears, and just look at those adorable little cubs. Three of ‘em!&#8221;
We were in Jasper  National Park driving the tiny potholed road to Cavell Glacier (which we drove last fall), when Janie made her discovery. The bears were on a small wooded hill, out in the open, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heading For Alaska</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/06/18/heading-for-alaska</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Departing tomorrow for Alaska, and it seems appropriate to post of few photographs from one of my favorite north-country settings, the Arctic Refuge, a place we&#8217;ve visited literally dozens of times. During those times we&#8217;ve seen grizzly bears, wolverines, thousands of caribou, and one day, we awoke to a snow storm. But it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorful Avocet Has Returned To Montana&#8217;s Prairie Wetlands</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/06/15/colorful-avocet-has-returned-to-montanas-prairie-wetlands</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/06/15/colorful-avocet-has-returned-to-montanas-prairie-wetlands#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Montana Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: All across the wetlands of eastern Montana, the American Avocet has returned, has laid its eggs and is ushering its young into the world. These are colorful birds and you will recognize them the moment you see them.
Because they are wading birds, they have long, thin gray legs, which give the species its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arctic Refuge Still Safe, Despite Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/06/11/arctic-refuge-still-safe-despite-alaska-senator-lisa-murkowski</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Several days ago Sen. Lisa Murkowski&#8217;s Arctic Refuge drilling amendment (the so-called &#8220;Directional Drilling&#8221; bill) was voted down, 13 to 10.  This bill, according to an Arctic Action news release, &#8220;would have cracked open the Arctic Refuge coastal plain to oil leasing and development and undermined the fundamental purposes of the refuge to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Baby Pelican&#8217;s Big Gulp</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/06/10/a-baby-pelicans-big-gulp</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/06/10/a-baby-pelicans-big-gulp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Pelicans in Montana? You betcha, and though not as abundant as the brown pelicans of Florida, still huge colonies of adult white pelicans seek out Montana, migrating from distant places in the South as well as from Mexico. In fact, they&#8217;re here right now, and they&#8217;re taking care of their young.
Most, but not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hitch Weight, Tongue Weight, Trailer Weight and Other Arcane Parameters</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/06/05/hitch-weight-tongue-weight-trailer-weight-and-other-arcane-parameters</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2009/06/05/hitch-weight-tongue-weight-trailer-weight-and-other-arcane-parameters#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: This past year Janie and I talked to several people who have had bad experiences with tires and hitches. We&#8217;re included in that group and about a year ago I posted a blog on the difficulty we had with a cracked receiver. Before heading for Alaska, we want to make sure everything is [...]]]></description>
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