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		<title>Evolve We Must</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Covel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An island is a great place to contemplate the concept of evolution. (It seemed to work for Charles Darwin.) I know there are multiple perspectives and meanings related to this term, so for the purposes of this article, I’m defining evolution as a process by which something develops into a different or better form. Things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Road in San Antonio with The Prairie Home Companion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Merriman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are in San Antonio teaching an Interpretive Trainers course this week. And our timing was great. I sometimes check to see if any interesting events are happening where we stay while training. Garrison Keillor&#8217;s Summer Love Tour happened to be in the Majestic Theater on Tuesday evening. We bought tickets over the Internet. Dinner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naturalists and Interpreters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Covel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, August 31, 2010 would have been my father’s 100th birthday. Unfortunately he didn’t make it to 100, but he accomplished a lot in the years he had. As the first municipal park naturalist in the western US, he helped break ground for a lot of us that followed down that path. That path has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America’s Great Outdoors Initiative &#8211; Share Your Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Merriman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Government and President Obama are soliciting ideas about protecting the places we love in the nation. There are public hearings being held all over the United States and their America&#8217;s Great Outdoors Initiative website allows you to post your ideas. I posted my ideas there as follows. // I find the comments on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate vs. the Great White Shark</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Covel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past 26 years the Monterey Bay Aquarium has been the official orphanage and hospital for sea otters in California. During that time over 500 sea otters have been brought in to the Aquarium’s Sea Otter Research &#38; Conservation (SORAC) program. Some of these have been adults that were hit by boats or exhibiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put Your Town’s Story on the Streets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Merriman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NAI just finished hosting the Civic Tourism III Conference in Fort Collins and it was very exciting. Despite light attendance of 63 agency staffers, interpreters, convention and visitor bureau staff and community volunteers, those present were enthusiastic about doing more to help communities have the kind of tourism they want. Dan Shilling’s book, Civic Tourism: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Covel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1980 a horror film was released entitled “The Fog.” In this film a small town on the California coast was enshrouded in fog at night. As the fog rolled in, it brought with it the spirits of mariners lost in a nearby shipwreck. I’m not sure which was more troublesome to the town’s residents—the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Interpretation – The Forgotten Audiences</title>
		<link>http://interpnet.com/naiblog/?p=1262</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Merriman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science interpretation is a growing opportunity in the science community. Science education is a more commonly used term, but , in my view that is really more appropriate to formal education. Children or adults learning science at a community school or college are motivated by class credits, degrees, graduation and grades. Science interpretation is more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food As Interpretation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Covel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few things that can blend the unique nature and culture of a region as well as regional cuisine. Food has all the ingredients for good interpretation—it&#8217;s multi-sensory, participatory, full of emotional connections as well as intellectual content. If you’re trying to convey a sense of place or heritage in a way that appeals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Citizens Fired Up so Rivers Don&#8217;t Burn</title>
		<link>http://interpnet.com/naiblog/?p=1237</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Merriman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week in Cleveland our interpretive planning class worked on plans for interpretive media for the grounds of the new park and interpretive project being developed by Cleveland Metroparks (CM) in collaboration with the Northeast Ohio Sewer District and City of Parma. A previous class worked on the overall concept for the Stewardship Center and [...]]]></description>
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