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		<title>Beetle infested forest&#8211;How I would have approached it</title>
		<link>http://thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/my-beetle-infested-forest-how-i-would-have-approached-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forest health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pine beetles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shoshone National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spruce beetle infestation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This small forest is almost exclusively spruce.  Springs from higher up feed the area, making it swampy in many places.   The springs are on public land; the forest you see in the photo is on the private lands of several homeowners.  It is a small island of conifers surrounded on both sides by meadow.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com&blog=6719203&post=1222&subd=thehumanfootprint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">View of the forest from my house</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Logged and not logged</media:title>
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		<title>Entrance gardens Part 3&#8211;The Finished Product</title>
		<link>http://thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/entrance-gardens-part-3-the-finished-product/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entry gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small gardens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The small entrance garden is now finished.  (See Posts 1 and 2)   I moved around several existing plants.  I used the existing Mondo grass as fillers and bought 20 more one gallon plants, which we divided to fill even more space.  The garden look good even though it was just installed.  Within a few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com&blog=6719203&post=1198&subd=thehumanfootprint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California natives Part 3 Groundcovers&#8230;Manzanitas and Ceanothus</title>
		<link>http://thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/california-natives-part-3-groundcovers-manzanitas-ceanothus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arctostaphylos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California natives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ceanothus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manzanitas for landscaping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this small series of posts on California natives for the garden, remember I&#8217;m trying to keep it simple and successful for the home gardener.  Most of the time when a homeowner asks for a low or no-water garden and I give them what they want, they always over water regardless.  Therefore, in general, unless [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com&blog=6719203&post=1183&subd=thehumanfootprint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">one year</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Ceanothus Hearts Desire</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Another view</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Yet another view</media:title>
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		<title>For Gaia lovers</title>
		<link>http://thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/for-gaia-lovers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global heating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Lovelock]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For all you Global Warming non-believers, environmentalists, politicians, city dwellers, pet lovers, gas guzzlers, consumers, cheese eaters, gardeners, youngsters, oldsters, or hipsters, I only have one recommendation for todays&#8217; post:  Read James Lovelock&#8217;s new book The Vanishing Face of Gaia.  A Final Warning. Too little, too late, a new hot world is coming, sooner than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com&blog=6719203&post=1177&subd=thehumanfootprint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Entrance Gardens Part 2</title>
		<link>http://thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/entrance-gardens-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/entrance-gardens-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entrance gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese style entrance gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small gardens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
The demo is completed.  The new soil has been worked in and the area is clean and ready for designing.  Most important, all my plants have arrived.  I always gather all my plants on site before I begin.  You wouldn&#8217;t want to paint a picture without all your colors to chose from?
First I must have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com&blog=6719203&post=1162&subd=thehumanfootprint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small gardens&#8211;Reviving an entrance garden step by step  Part 1</title>
		<link>http://thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/small-gardens-reviving-an-entrance-garden-step-by-step-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/small-gardens-reviving-an-entrance-garden-step-by-step-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entry gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small gardens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d do a series of posts as I work to revive a tired garden in Sausalito.  Portions of this entrance I&#8217;d worked on over 10 years ago, but because the owner&#8217;s gardener had no idea had to do real maintenance, the garden had disintegrated into disrepair.  Portions of the design were still intact, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com&blog=6719203&post=1154&subd=thehumanfootprint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We were home&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/we-were-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paleoterrific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharman Russell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In her book When the Land was Young, Sharman Russell works a sensitive exploration of North American archaeology today.  She visits and talks with archaeologists on site.  The book is written more as poetic prose than dry hard science.  Here is one of my favorite excerpts:
Vance Haynes is here today mapping a well he thinks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com&blog=6719203&post=1145&subd=thehumanfootprint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California natives part 2- Ribes sp.</title>
		<link>http://thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/california-natives-part2-ribes-sp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California natives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ribes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite native flowering three season plant is Ribes or Gooseberry.  You may have read my post on White Blister Rust on our native white bark pines.  Ribes are a host for this European fungus.  Extensive attempts to eradicate western Ribes sp. in the early 20th century was the method of control, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com&blog=6719203&post=1139&subd=thehumanfootprint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California natives.  Part 1 Aesculus california, California Buckeye</title>
		<link>http://thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/california-natives-part-1-aesculus-california-california-buckeye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[New ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;m in Northern California for a few months, I thought I&#8217;d do a few posts on some of my favorite, most useful, and underused natives for the garden.
First, the debate about &#8216;What is a Native?&#8217;
I was asked to be in a garden tour a few years back centering around California natives.  The organizer asked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com&blog=6719203&post=1133&subd=thehumanfootprint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Golden Bear of California</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Driving through Tioga Pass, I couldn&#8217;t help but think of California&#8217;s state flag&#8230;the great Golden  Bear, a sub-species of our Grizzly, now extinct.
Black bears are ubiquitous in the Sierras.  I&#8217;ve heard from friends that back country hikers are now required to carry their food in bear containers when backpacking, adding lots of extra weight to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehumanfootprint.wordpress.com&blog=6719203&post=1121&subd=thehumanfootprint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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