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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>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>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>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>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>Identity vs. Consequences</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Covel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been many models to predict decision-making behavior through the years. Our modern industry of marketing and advertising is based largely on decision-making models. After all, the goal of most advertising is to persuade you to engage in a particular behavior—namely purchasing a particular product or service. Whether we like to admit it or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berry Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Covel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I look forward to a particular tradition this time of the summer—harvesting some of nature’s bounty in the form of wild berries.  Over the past few weeks I’ve been observing the blossoms on the elderberries and huckleberries, then watching the fruit slowly forming and ripening.  The thimbleberries came first this year.  There are never enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whale Invasion!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Covel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monterey Bay has been invaded by whales. Every few years the krill population explodes, and that means dinner’s on for a wide variety of birds, fishes, and marine mammals that gather for the feeding opportunity. The shoals of krill are 200-300 feet thick and may extend for a couple of miles in each direction. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keepers of the Keeping Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Covel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This spring, I had an opportunity to visit an aboriginal cultural center in Queensland, Australia, this spring. It wasn’t a large or fancy facility, but it held some art and objects that were very meaningful to the people of the tribes that maintained the center. They had a name for this special place—the “keeping place.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 4 Perspectives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Covel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the time I spent as a park ranger was fun and rewarding to say the least. I wouldn’t trade those days for anything—except the Fourth of July. It was the one holiday I really learned to hate. We had some grand celebrations in the parks—community picnics, music, skydivers, fireworks and more. But from [...]]]></description>
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