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	<title>California Literary Review &#187; Nature</title>
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		<title>Yellowstone Drift: All of This Begins Here</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3389</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Yellowstone steadily flows down to the Missouri, then Mississippi and finally the Gulf of Mexico, always as gravity’s companion – this movement is the essence of all rivers. The repetitive nature of the day to day routine out here is hypnotic, rapidly washing away anxiety and, finally, useless ego. An unaccustomed serenity and well-being pervades as the canoe tracks its own way with slight help from me. Everything is now the river and its fertile, riparian corridor with all of the creatures who depend on this water to live moving in synchronicity.]]></description>
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		<title>The Paintings of Tom Palmore</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["There are a handful of original wildlife artists and the rest are members of the ‘elk in the meadow’ or ‘moose in the water’ schools. We are all influenced by society and by history, but you have to take those examples, put them through your own filter and make them your own.”]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Killing the Honeybees?</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1512</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["So the bigger conclusion is that we have soaked our landscape in toxic chemicals, many of which can interact to form even more toxic compounds, and there is absolutely no regulation or testing of this mixing. Most beekeepers and researchers I’ve spoken with believe pesticides are one factor, working in conjunction with introduced parasites, viruses, bacteria, and fungi, and quite possibly with deteriorating living conditions for bees. Bees could handle one or two of these stressors, but not all of them."]]></description>
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		<title>The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic by Stan Ulanski</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1404</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aside from providing an easily assimilated scientific and historical overview, <em>The Gulf Stream</em> describes and mammoth natural system that helps drive the living organism that is earth. In these regards Ulanski has done his job as a writer.]]></description>
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		<title>High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/672</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of this pales in comparison to the obscene madness that has now become the fate of Base Camp at Mount Everest. The 8,000-meter peaks of the Himalayas have become the unfortunate repositories for what is repugnant about human nature with very little innate goodness surviving. Dying climbers pushed aside, ignored and denied medical help while their equipment is stolen, greedy guides unethical to the point of criminal, drugs, alcoholism, prostitution – hell this could just as well be inner city New York or Saigon as 20,000 feet above sea level in what used to be one of the most remote landscapes on earth. Everest has become the poster child for this debauchery.]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona&#8217;s Kartchner Caverns</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/624</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 13:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Tufts and Tenen saw themselves as guardians of the cave. They were extremely concerned that their discovery could be looted and destroyed, as had happened to other caves in southern Arizona. They were determined to preserve its pristine quality. They became obsessed with secrecy, and hired a lawyer to write out a legally binding secrecy document that they insisted that anyone whom they had any reason to tell about the cave must sign. Tenen even made his future wife sign a secrecy document on their second date!"]]></description>
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		<title>Man vs Fish: The Fly Fisherman’s Eternal Struggle by Taylor Streit</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/484</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the tough time of the year for those such as myself who love and live to fly fish, to cast haphazardly-tied amalgams of fur and feather to wild trout while standing knee deep in the middle of a gorgeous trout stream surrounded by jagged mountains and vast native grass prairies that drift off in all directions.]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Italy: Getting into the Mountains</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/304</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did not know that Neanderthals once lived hereabouts; that farmers first settled here six thousand years ago; that nearby, down on the Campagna, the Gauls defeated the Romans in 390 B.C. before going on to take Rome itself. I knew dimly that the Allied forces had fought the Wehrmacht in these parts in 1944, but not that the day before the Americans took Marcellina, the Germans rounded up all the village men they could find and shot them in reprisal for the killing of two German grenadiers.]]></description>
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		<title>A Place for Three Seasons: Crested Butte</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/290</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let us be clear on one thing: physically fit people tend to get more out of this place. One can sit and admire the mountains from a bench on Elk Avenue, or from a car out on the summer roads, but to me there is nothing better in life than walking an hour or two up to Scarp Ridge or the long green alp atop Mount Axtell, to sit and see high peaks all around.]]></description>
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		<title>The World Without Us by Alan Weisman</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/285</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Loftus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, informally known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is a span of ocean between California and Hawaii the size of Texas, where floats a Sargasso Sea of trash consisting of 90 percent plastic.]]></description>
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		<title>Notes From Italy: Sunday With the CAI</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/236</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not Labrador. We are fifty miles northeast of Rome and a mile above sea level, climbing Monte Cava in the Central Apennines, on one of our Sunday jaunts with the Club Alpino Italiano, Sezione Roma. Just ahead of me is my wife, Mary Jane, and beyond her I can see Antonello the orthodontist, and beyond him Alessandro, a banker on weekdays but today our Leader.]]></description>
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		<title>Sophie Osborn on Saving the California Condor</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/226</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I think hunters need to start demanding more research into the human health impacts of hunting with lead bullets.  Saving condors may benefit us more than we ever imagined."]]></description>
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		<title>Walking It Off  &#8211; by Doug Peacock</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/181</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doug Peacock’s reputation frequently precedes him as does that of his late, larger-than-life friend and father figure Edward Abbey.]]></description>
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		<title>The Quiet Mountains – A Ten-Year Search for the Last Wild Trout of Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental &#8211; by Rex Johnson, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/159</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One region I’ve always wanted to wander about in is Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental mountains, a 1,000-mile range running from near the U.S. border down towards the isthmus of Panama.]]></description>
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		<title>Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh &#8211; by John Elder</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/154</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a beautiful book.  The author is a professor of English at Middlebury College whose writing has centered on our natural environment.]]></description>
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		<title>The Hundredth Meridian by Chilton Williamson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/132</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chilton Williamson definitely cares about the West. Every essay in his collection The Hundredth Meridian – Seasons and Travels in the New Old West  makes this abundantly clear.]]></description>
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		<title>The Essential Grizzly – The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears &#8211; by Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/124</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The style of this book is intriguing. Doug has written several short stories, called Portraits, based on his personal experiences with the bears around the northern  Rockies, while Andrea contributes chapters revolving around interviews and reporting on the subject.]]></description>
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		<title>Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, Judith E. Moores</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/102</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do we understand the natural forces that literally shape our world? How, over time have we attempted to explain sometimes spectacular, sometimes mysterious events?]]></description>
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		<title>Casting a Spell: The Bamboo Fly Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection by George Black</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/108</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago, back in the days of its relative anonymity, fly fishing was considered an arcane art practiced by mildly addled, eccentric cranks.]]></description>
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		<title>Jays, Films, and Georg Steller</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane.  Lord Cochrane’s exploits were at least as great as those of the fictitious Aubrey, and hardly less than those of Britain’s greatest naval hero, Lord Nelson.  But while O’Brian admitted that Cochrane was the inspiration for Aubrey, he did not tell us before he died in 2000 whether he had a real-life model for Maturin. The answer, I think, lies in the handsome bird that I see now beyond our sun room window.]]></description>
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