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		<title>How Many Rivers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I make a move, as I did recently, I take an inventory of what my resources are.  I recently moved back to Olympia after a short gig in Skagit County.  I am starting a new job that is broadening my scope of professional and natural history awareness.  I find myself wondering as I try [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qnhn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833844&amp;post=183&amp;subd=qnhn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brief Hiatus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bstafki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find that when I get the busiest is when I need to get out the most.  I have been pretty busy the since a move to Thurston County in March.  I went from 1/4 of a job to 1 1/2 jobs and now three.  What do I miss the most? 7th Ave SW, Westside [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qnhn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833844&amp;post=178&amp;subd=qnhn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climbed A Tree Recently?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bstafki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn’t it be cool if you could live off of air, be up high on a perch to take in the world, and could cling in precarious places?  No, I’m not talking about mountain goats or my mountaineer friends (who wish they could be mountain goats- mostly).  I am describing the world of epiphytes.  They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qnhn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833844&amp;post=171&amp;subd=qnhn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If You Were a Superhero</title>
		<link>http://qnhn.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/if-you-were-a-superhero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bstafki</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NOAA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[port townsend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Port Townsend Marine Science Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quimper Peninsula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red urchin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you were a superhero- what would your powers be ?  I have always been impressed by echinoderms as they harness the powers of water to leap over small boulders,  pry apart shells and stick to vertical or inverted surfaces.  Ok, maybe leap is not the right word- crawl. Touch tank 3, Marine Exhibit, Port [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qnhn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833844&amp;post=160&amp;subd=qnhn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Must Weather the Weather</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bstafki</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Forks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[precipitation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I continue choosing my bicycle as my main form of transportation, I sometimes ask myself the question, “is it ever going to stop raining!”  Then I stop and remind myself that despite growing-up in the desert Southwest, I now live in the Pacific Northwest. Port Townsend, Quimper Peninsula, Jefferson County, Washington State, USA. Living [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qnhn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833844&amp;post=153&amp;subd=qnhn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sedges Have Edges</title>
		<link>http://qnhn.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/sedges-have-edges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bstafki</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson Land Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quimper Wildlife Cooridoor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What isn’t there to get excited about sedges? Quimper Wildlife Corridor, trailhead off Cook Ave/Elmira St, west of Port Townsend, Quimper Peninsula, E. Jefferson County, Washington State, USA. On a recent walk with docents from the Jefferson Land Trust, I discovered some great wetlands of the North Quimper Peninsula within a 20 minute bike ride [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qnhn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833844&amp;post=140&amp;subd=qnhn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winged Migration- a Wonder of the World</title>
		<link>http://qnhn.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/winged-migration-a-wonder-of-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bstafki</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bird]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lesser Sandhill crane]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naturalist approach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roswell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Witnessing part of winged migration is always a highlight of my fall and winter visits to Roswell, New Mexico. Unit 3, Middle Tract, Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Bitter Lakes Road off US 285, Roswell, Chavez County, New Mexico, USA.   Nov 27, 6:45 am. Bitter Lake National Wildlife refuge covers over 24 thousand acres on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qnhn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833844&amp;post=121&amp;subd=qnhn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Forest’s Own Stimulus Package</title>
		<link>http://qnhn.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/the-forest%e2%80%99s-own-stimulus-package/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bstafki</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Actinomycete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cappy's Trails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nitrogen fixation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Red Alder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Burnt shells of long-gone giants dot the forest.  Some trunks have blackened “fingers” that reach up from the ground toward the sky.  Forest fire, in Cappy’s Trails, must have changed this landscape at one point. Trailhead off Holcombe and Hill Street, Cappy’s Trails, Port Townsend, Quimper Peninsula, E. Jefferson County, Washington State, USA. From where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qnhn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833844&amp;post=109&amp;subd=qnhn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Birds in Winter Gales</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bstafki</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[torpor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chimes ring, the house shakes, the aspen branches scrape the skylights. Off San Juan Ave, Port Townsend, Quimper Peninsula, E. Jefferson County, Washington State, USA. Last night gave residents of Port Townsend gusts of 47 mph (maybe even higher).   It is a reminder that we live on a peninsula and that the weather (and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qnhn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833844&amp;post=105&amp;subd=qnhn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sands of Change at Ft. Worden State Park</title>
		<link>http://qnhn.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/sands-of-change-at-ft-worden-state-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bstafki</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fort Worden State Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glacier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Point Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puget Sound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quimper Peninsula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you come from a place like Southeastern New Mexico, where the ground gently rolls for hundreds of miles, covered by clumps of grasses and cacti, one can’t help but obsess over the grandeur of the landscape in WA.  Just when you think you have it all figured out, you come across something new. NE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qnhn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833844&amp;post=85&amp;subd=qnhn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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