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		<title>Presumed Extinct: Fish Out of Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Bettelheim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clear Lake]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gila crassicauda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOST SPECIES OF THE BAY AREA Presumed Extinct: Clear Lake splittail, thicktail chub As with the presumed extinct ivory-billed woodpecker reported in Arkansas in 2004, there is always the chance that a long-lost plant or animal will be rediscovered, thanks to persistent searching and luck. That’s true even in a busy metropolitan area like the San Francisco Bay [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bioaccumulation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8762551&#038;post=1002&#038;subd=bioaccumulation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Did the Turtle Cross the Road?</title>
		<link>http://bioaccumulation.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/why-did-the-turtle-cross-the-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 07:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Bettelheim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Material]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herpetology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Pond Turtle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clemmys marmorata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[herpetology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roadkill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turtle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[western pond turtle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[western pond turtle brochure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What to do if you find a western pond turtle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t count the number of times I&#8217;ve turned the car around – or cajoled my wife or any other unfortunate driver I happen to be with at the time to do the same – after having caught a &#8216;glimpse&#8217; at sixty-five miles an hour of what could only have been a western pond turtle [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bioaccumulation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8762551&#038;post=2230&#038;subd=bioaccumulation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Natural History of California</title>
		<link>http://bioaccumulation.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/the-natural-history-of-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 06:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Bettelheim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fisheries]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mammalogy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California Fish and Game]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a bid to go green, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW; formerly, the California Department of Fish and Game) is digitizing their 99-year-old quarterly scientific journal, California Fish and Game. In addition to making all issues post-December 2012 available online, they’re also dusting off the stack of journals in the archives. In [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bioaccumulation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8762551&#038;post=2207&#038;subd=bioaccumulation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elkhorn Slough: 2013 Western Pond Turtle Workshop</title>
		<link>http://bioaccumulation.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/elkhorn-slough-2013-western-pond-turtle-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Bettelheim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Herpetology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Pond Turtle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workshops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Germano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elkhorn Slough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Galen Rathbun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[herpetology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[western pond turtle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back by popular demand for the sixth year running, the Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program is sponsoring the Western Pond Turtle Workshop 2013 with presenters Drs. David Germano (Professor, California State University Bakersfield) and Galen Rathbun (Research Associate, California Academy of Sciences). The workshop, slated for Thursday, June 27, 2013 at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bioaccumulation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8762551&#038;post=2203&#038;subd=bioaccumulation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Western Pond Turtle Literature – Citations New and Old</title>
		<link>http://bioaccumulation.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/western-pond-turtle-literature-citations-new-and-old/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Bettelheim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Herpetology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emys]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you western pond turtle aficionados, I hope by now you have stumbled across the western pond turtle literature page, where the bulk of the western pond turtle literature published between 1852 and the present has been meticulously indexed and posted for public consumption. I say &#8216;bulk&#8217; because even I overlook a paper [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bioaccumulation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8762551&#038;post=2186&#038;subd=bioaccumulation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Owl and the Woodpecker</title>
		<link>http://bioaccumulation.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/book-review-the-owl-and-the-woodpecker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Bettelheim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[owls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Bannick]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Owl and the Woodpecker: Encounters with North America&#8217;s Most Iconic Birds, by Paul Bannick, The Mountaineers Books (http://www.mountaineersbooks.org), 2008, 200 pages, $ 26.95. Maybe I&#8217;ve spent too many years looking down, scanning the ground for wildlife (I am, after all, a herpetologist), but it wasn&#8217;t until photographer Paul Bannick&#8217;s The Owl and the Woodpecker [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bioaccumulation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8762551&#038;post=2177&#038;subd=bioaccumulation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yosemite in HD: The Star Spangled Banners of Heaven</title>
		<link>http://bioaccumulation.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/yosemite-in-hd-the-star-spangled-banners-of-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Bettelheim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Natural History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News and Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Delehanty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project Yosemite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheldon Neill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Muir Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yosemite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yosemite in HD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If ever there was cinematic footage that left me feeling awestruck, humble, and infinitesimally insignificant at the same time, this is it. If you haven&#8217;t already had the pleasure of watching Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty&#8217;s Project Yosemite&#8217;s Yosemite in HD (Part I), prepare to be amazed. Although it is curious how much like spiders we resemble when [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bioaccumulation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8762551&#038;post=2168&#038;subd=bioaccumulation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seal Milk: A Fresh Breath of Dairy Air for Foodies</title>
		<link>http://bioaccumulation.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/seal-milk-a-fresh-breath-of-dairy-air-for-foodies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Bettelheim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angus Tirostris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[April Fools]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ostermund I. Fuhl]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were to follow the Pacific Coast Highway south from the harbor and lighthouse at Point Arena, winding along the rocky shoreline as the Pacific Ocean washes over the world&#8217;s end on your right, you might miss the unassuming bullet-battered tin sign swinging in the breeze that reads, simply, &#8220;C-Ranch Dairy.&#8221; The sign marks [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bioaccumulation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8762551&#038;post=2052&#038;subd=bioaccumulation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Robert C. Stebbins: Happy Birthday</title>
		<link>http://bioaccumulation.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/dr-robert-c-stebbins-happy-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Bettelheim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Herpetology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Stebbins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[herpetology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert C. Stebbins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As so many (bio)accumulation readers have faithfully reminded me, today – March 31st – is Dr. Robert C. Stebbins&#8216; 98th birthday. Warm wishes to California&#8217;s renowned herpetologist! Feel free to leave a note in a comment below if you&#8217;d like to reminisce or share your regards in honor of his birthday. Filed under: Herpetology, Stebbins [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bioaccumulation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8762551&#038;post=2155&#038;subd=bioaccumulation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Robert C. Stebbins, Kensington Residence Studio, 2004                  Museum of Vertebrate Zooology, UC Berkeley</media:title>
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		<title>Western Pond Turtle – The Young and the Restless</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Bettelheim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a midday hike this weekend, I caught this year&#8217;s first glimpse of western pond turtles (Clemmys marmorata) taking advantage of March&#8217;s false spring sizzle. It was the vainglorious male basking on an outthrust stump that first caught my attention; I knew him well from past visits to this pond. A slow circuit of the water&#8217;s edge [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bioaccumulation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8762551&#038;post=2090&#038;subd=bioaccumulation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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