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	<title>Yips and Howls &#187; Biodiversity</title>
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		<title>Temptation in the Apple Trees</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/07/temptation-in-the-apple-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I spent an afternoon in the old apple orchard to check out the bird nesting scene. The cows found this fascinating....]]></description>
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		<title>Wren Independence Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The house wrens nesting on our yurt porch chose this morning, the 4th of July, to shoo their young ones out of the nest.]]></description>
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		<title>Elderberry Bloom</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/06/elderberry-bloom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elderberries are blooming in northeastern Oregon....]]></description>
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		<title>When Life Gives You Weeds&#8230;Eat &#8216;Em</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the rain out over the last few weeks and the challenges of getting the summer garden in, I&#8217;ve been grateful for food that sprouts with no effort on my part. I might not want stinging nettles in my cultivated garden, but I like having a patch on a distant corner of our property. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domestic Challenges, Wild Beauty</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/05/domestic-challenges-wild-beaut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 03:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m ecstatic to be back on our property in Northeastern Oregon.  There&#8217;s lots to do: organizing inside the yurt to make cooking and storage more convenient, building a spring box and laying pipe to get potable water into the yurt, putting in the garden.  And there are many challenges: a muddy road, cars that get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Frogs Day 2010</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/04/save-the-frogs-day-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Save the Frogs Day. Over 2000 species are threatened with extinction....]]></description>
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		<title>Bushy-Tailed Woodrat: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/02/bushy-tailed-woodrat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, we drive to NE Oregon to spend a week or so in our yurt (and a few other places).  The creature I fear most on this trip is not the cougar, wolf or porcupine.  It's much smaller.  Most females and the younger males of the species could fit into the palm of my hand....]]></description>
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		<title>American Pika: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/02/american-pika/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The calls and whistles (listen below) of the American pika (Ochotona princeps) are one of the delights of hiking into remote alpine areas --  and such a refreshing escape from the noise of daily news, courtroom dramas, and political debates.  Now the tiny rabbit relative may unwittingly generate press releases, research reports and legal briefs higher than its hay piles....]]></description>
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		<title>Yak: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/01/yak-species-of-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/01/yak-species-of-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm still celebrating the publication of my first poem in the High Desert Journal and its subject matter -- cows.  So perhaps now is a good time to share a shaggier bovine fantasy I've been nursing over the last few years....]]></description>
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		<title>Mossy Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/01/moss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moss growing behind my ears, moss for brains, hiding under moss....]]></description>
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