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		<title>Ocotillo: Species of the Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose it's inevitable that a temperate forest-dweller like me would be amazed by the oddities that grow in the desert.  It's been two weeks since I returned home to Portland, Oregon from a brief trip to Arizona, and I'm still sighing over the blooms I saw in the desert...]]></description>
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		<title>Horned Lizard: Species of the Week</title>
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		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lizards, lizards, lizards.  I love lizards.  I'm not sure which came first: my nickname - Lizzy the Lizard - or my love for reptiles.  I like snakes and amphibians too, but lizards make me especially happy...]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery Web: A Tarantula Lair?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Desert Tarantula Lair? In anticipation of a visit to Central Arizona, I featured the desert tarantula on my blog last week.  I didn&#8217;t see one, but my partner Jerry snapped a photo of this amazing web.  We found it off Highway 89 just as it descends from Peeple&#8217;s Valley towards Wickenburg. I&#8217;d love some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desert Tarantula: Species of the Week</title>
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		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of some 850 species of tarantulas worldwide, the genus Aphonopelma includes the four dozen or so species native to the United States.  Aphonopelma chalcodes - the Desert Tarantula - is the one I'll be most likely to meet in Arizona...]]></description>
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		<title>Superstitions, Saguaro, and Bajadas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trip to Prescott College for a colloquium (and to visit my son) breaks my writing routine and has brought me into a drier, sunnier winter.  A 24 hour detour to the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix gave me a a taste of a desert spring.  It also fulfilled a long-held fantasy of walking among the [...]]]></description>
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