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	<title>Yips and Howls &#187; Species of the Week</title>
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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>
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		<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>Douglas Fir: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/12/douglas-fir-species-of-the-week-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Northwest]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/?p=4677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've spent most of my life among Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga sp.)  Although I love other trees and plant communities, Douglas fir forests still speak to me of home.  In the Pacific Northwest, they're ubiquitous from the Cascades to the coast.  Douglas fir and other conifers of the region are why I've never felt at ease in the deciduous forests of eastern North America (as lovely as they are), where bare branches in winter make me especially homesick....]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy Dolphin: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/12/irawaddy-dolphin-species-of-the-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polar bears: they get all the climate change attention.  So this week as negotiators meet in Copenhagen, the Wildlife Conservation Society highlighted "unsung species" that are just as vulnerable to climate change.  This isn't to diminish the grave situation for the world' biggest bear but to make sure we don't lose sight of less familiar - and less popular - animals....]]></description>
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		<title>Spinner Dolphin: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/12/spinner-dolphin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the cold holiday season, I find myself remembering trips to tropical waters and the species I've encountered there.  I may write about sea turtles, reef sharks, octopus, and triggerfish in the future, but it's the spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) that have been on my mind this past week....]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Turkey: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/11/wild-turkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike my stepfather and his clan, numerous cousins, the son I spawned, and many friends; I don't usually look at wild animals and think: meat.  Wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo), indigenous to North America, have become a recent exception....]]></description>
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		<title>Western Larch: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/11/western-larch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was hard to leave our yurt in northeastern Oregon with Western larch (Larix occidentalis) in full copper-yellow glory.  But when the flanks of the mountains there blaze with what looks like a procession of candles, it's time to get ready for a harsh winter or move to lower elevations....]]></description>
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		<title>Chameleon Blogging: Changes to &#8220;Species of the Week&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/11/chameleon-blogging/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/11/chameleon-blogging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know.  This is a Carolina anole, not a chameleon. When I was a kid, I lusted after chameleons.  But anoles change color too, and they were cheaper and easier to find in local pet stores, so that's what I got....]]></description>
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		<title>Quaking Aspen: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/10/quaking-aspen-species-of-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/10/quaking-aspen-species-of-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time of year, I&#8217;m one of many throughout the West enthralled by – and worried about &#8211; one of our most striking fall color trees: Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides ). Utah and Colorado have acres and acres of aspens.  In northeast Oregon, we have smaller groves dotting the more prevalent bunchgrass slopes and ponderosa [...]]]></description>
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