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	<title>Chattermarks &#187; Field Excursions</title>
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		<title>Latitudinal and Longitudinal Explorations of Natural History</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/latitudinal-and-longitudinal-explorations-of-natural-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christen Kiser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fungus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M.Ed. Graduate Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national parks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patagonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rainshadow effect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sense of place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As much as we love North Cascadian landscapes, we here at the Institute are still called to visit and experience other amazing places on our planet. We publish accounts of the places Institute staff and graduate students visit in our Road Trip series. As graduate students immersed in developing a sense of place within the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the Upper Skagit: Ross Lake by Boat and Boot</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/reflections-on-the-upper-skagit-ross-lake-by-boat-and-boot/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/reflections-on-the-upper-skagit-ross-lake-by-boat-and-boot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christen Kiser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cedars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethnobotany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exploration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hozomeen Chert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPS Mule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skagit River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upriver University]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Special Guest Blogger Elisabeth Keating. On a cool Thursday evening in late July, a group of adventurers gather at the Environmental Learning Center for the 24th (and possibly final) year of one of North Cascades Institute&#8217;s most popular courses: Ross Lake By Boat and Boot a three-day exploratory workshop on the people and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain School Stewardship</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/mountain-school-stewardship/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/mountain-school-stewardship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pulling Blackberries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stewardship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volunteer Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=11933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello friends of Mountain School! If you haven&#8217;t yet heard, we&#8217;ve started a new Mountain School Stewardship program in Bellingham. After a class has come to Mountain School, we meet them at a city park within walking distance of their school to do a service project. The students revisit what they learned at the Environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Teacher to Student and Back Again</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/from-teacher-to-student-and-back-again/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/from-teacher-to-student-and-back-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christen Kiser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graduate M.Ed. Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Byron Ricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fall Graduate Retreat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M.Ed. Graduate Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Methow Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mushrooms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tripod Fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=11211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend Cohort 11 graduate students had the chance to step away from our roles as Mountain School Instructors and again return to being students of Natural History during our three day Fall Grad Retreat. After weeks of training and teaching 5th and 6thÂ grade youth about the diverse ecosystems of the North Cascades, the respite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The History of Skagit Dams &#8211; Seeing Things Anew</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/history-of-skagit-dams/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/history-of-skagit-dams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city of seattle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diablo dam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gorge dam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hydropower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ross dam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skagit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skagit River]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=10773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ana Maria Spagna I&#8217;ve driven Washington&#8217;s Highway 20, the North Cascades Highway, for years. I used live in Rockport right along the highway, and I used to work for the national park that straddles the highway, and for one interminable summer when Laurie worked on the east side of the crest and I worked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See the wild side with new North Cascades tours</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/north-cascades-expeditions/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/north-cascades-expeditions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institute News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hydropower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Highway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seattle City Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skagit Tours]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=10572</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seattle City Light&#8217;s Skagit Tours has added a guided van-and-hiking day tour of its Skagit hydroelectric project and nearby falls, gorges and viewpoints of the North Cascades. Photo by Jessica Haag. &#160; By Mike McQuaide Originally published in The Seattle Times, August 3, 2011 Atop Diablo Dam, in the heart of the North Cascades, Sara [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Service Learning through Stewardship</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/service-learning-stewardship/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/service-learning-stewardship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stewardship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=10546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Going out on a stewardship day with Mike Brondi makes me feel like a kid again. True, he is old enough to be my father, but it&#8217;s his style of storytelling, his kind face and vast knowledge that puts me in a child-like awe. Mirroring my wonderment was Alexia, the three-year-old steward out with her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stewardship: Immediate Gratification</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/stewardship-immediate-gratification/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/stewardship-immediate-gratification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baker Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stewardship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=10284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Iâ€™ve gotten used to the rush of the office day. My fingertips on a keyboard, phones ringing, get up, go to the bathroom, sit down, think about whatâ€™s next, check off the list, shut down the computer, go home. I marvel at how much time Iâ€™ve spent sitting in the same place trying to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Youth Recon 2011</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/recon-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/recon-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Codi Hamblin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canoeing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascades Climate Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer youth programs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=10169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a week of food and gear packing, the Summer Youth team ventured to Ross Lake for the annual recon trip. The purpose of the trip was to transport food and gear to Ross Lake Resort for the summer, familiarize ourselves with the lakeside campgrounds, learn program curriculum and test out the camping gear and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Kicks Off with Stewardship</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/summer-kicks-off-with-stewardship/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/summer-kicks-off-with-stewardship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stewardship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=10068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a motto for hiking in the Northwest: &#8220;I may not get a tan, but at least I&#8217;ll get a shower.&#8221; This winter did nothing but confirm my beliefs. During the longer-than-usual dark months of rain falling outside my office, I sat at my desk planning volunteer projects in the hopes that the sky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The merry (and busy!) month of May</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/the-merry-month-of-may/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/the-merry-month-of-may/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 16:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institute News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=9595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This month, our 25th anniversary year really starts hopping with a wide range of public events, field excursions, readings, open houses and the first family getaway of 2011. Here&#8217;s a round-up of what we&#8217;re doing &#8212; read on and see how you can plug in. May 6: Book release party for Ana Maria Spagna&#8217;s Potluck: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Treasures of the Skagit Valley</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/winter-treasures/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/winter-treasures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Codi Hamblin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skagit Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=8043</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thereâ€™s a sense of amazement that overcomes me each winter when I approach a muddy farm field turned white. Itâ€™s not from snow, per se, but snow geese, who travel hundreds of miles from their Siberian nesting grounds to winter and feed in the lower Skagit Valley. The fields this time of year, particularly near [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wildflower photography with Mark Turner</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/wildflower-photography/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/wildflower-photography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Haag</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easy Pass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Turner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sauk Mountain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildflowers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=5570</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Itâ€™s hard to imagine a more inspiring place than the blooming, alpine meadows of the North Cascades to take a wildflower photography class, or a better instructor than Mark Turner, co-author of the Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest handbook. On July 19-21st with 15 photographers under his wing Mark embarked on a 3-day wildflower photography [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Institute ode to summer</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/an-institute-ode-to-summer/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/an-institute-ode-to-summer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Okanogan National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skagit Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=5119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The transition from spring to summer has been a long awaited and hopeful one to those of us living in the Pacific Northwest this year. This past week, our hopes have finally been fulfilled as the summer sun no longer conceals itself from behind overcast skies and the snow so prevalent upon the high peaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migratory Shorebird Festival at Padilla Bay</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/migratory-shorebird-festival-at-padilla-bay/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/migratory-shorebird-festival-at-padilla-bay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Fowler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International District Housing Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kulshan Creek Neighborhood Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migratory Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NC Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=4897</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Migratory Shorebird Festival at Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve was attended by a diverse audience including high school students who will be attending a North Cascades Wild (NC Wild) backpacking trip this upcoming summer, children from the Kulshan Creek neighborhood, and seniors from the International District Housing Alliance. The goal of the day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bunchgrass Dreams : High Desert Ecology with Mark Darrach</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/bunchgrass-dreams-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/bunchgrass-dreams-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bunchgrass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eastern Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=4590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Institute is venturing over to eastern Washington the weekend of May 15-16 for a very special field excursion with biologist and geologist Mark Darrach. &#8220;Bunchgrass Dreams: High Desert Ecology&#8221; explores the Arid Land Ecology Reserve, located within the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near the Tri-Cities in Eastern Washington, which is the largest remnant of native [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocking the old growth</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/rocking-the-old-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/rocking-the-old-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eagle watching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[old growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rockport State Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=3736</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we think in order to see new things that we need to travel to the furthest reaches of our earth. I was reminded of how wrong this train of thought is last Saturday as I traveled 40 minutes downriver to Rockport State Park. Rockport is a small place, blink while driving across Highway 20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capturing the Cascades</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/capturing-the-cascades/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/capturing-the-cascades/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the second weekend in September, 12 photographers joined me (Benj Drummond) at the Learning Center for a weekend seminar on digital photography. We enjoyed clear sunny days and took advantage of the beautiful fall light from dawn until dusk (and then kept shooting). After returning from the field, we edited and tweaked our images [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories in Stone</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/stories-on-stone/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/stories-on-stone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=2588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pioneer Building with 50-million-year old sandstone from Bellingham, specifically from the Chuckanut quarries. Guest post by David Williams (David Williams is leading &#8220;Seattle&#8217;s Wild Side: Natural History in the Streets&#8221; tour on Saturday, Sept. 26. Sorry, the tour is full!) As a hard-core geogeek, I often need a fix of rock.Â  Since I cannot always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surfing a Superfund site</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/adventures/surfing-a-superfund-site/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/adventures/surfing-a-superfund-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kayak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=1883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[May 30 was a great day for a paddle in Seattle, with full sun and a light breeze to take the edge off. With a myriad of wild lakes, rivers and open sound waters to choose from, the Duwamish Waterway hardly seems like a choice location for an excursion. An EPA Superfund site, the Duwamish [...]]]></description>
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