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		<title>Bobbing Around Off Nome</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alaskan Enterprise bobs on unsettled seas outside the harbor at Nome, waiting for permission to dock. I use the term &#8216;harbor&#8217; loosely, for how can something be called a harbor when it is completely open to gales from a particular direction? We spent last night waiting for the wind and seas to change because [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Through The Bering Strait</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alaskan Enterprise sits broadside to the modest wind, sunshine pouring in through the windows of the bridge. We are off the coast of Kotzebue, making an unscheduled stop to pick up crucial sampling equipment that was shipped overnight from Seattle, to replace a faulty, fundamental component of the research effort. A semi-rigid dinghy was [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Cyber-isolation and Seabirds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am on the wing, heading north in a couple of days to join a NOAA marine mammal expedition in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, as a volunteer seabird observer. My role is to record seabird abundance while the ship, the Alaskan Enterprise, travels from station to station along an extended cruise that begins in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico&#8217;s Magnificent El Triunfo Reserve, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 19:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[El Triunfo. It&#8217;s a legendary place among birders because of two rare birds, horned guan and azure-rumped tanager, but it is so much more. Officially called La Reserva de La Biosfera El Triunfo, this biosphere reserve guards one of the few pristine wildernesses left in Mexico, including the largest contiguous cloud forest remaining in Mesoamerica. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>tripping home</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=403</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 15:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wake light rising house sparrows jabbering in the verdant shadows like mexican abuelitas comparing travesties of past husbands and walk seven blocks past sleepy store openings and snorting buses and past a flatbed truck unloading its gristly pile of half-cows already swarming with flies into the market I cross to a chocolate factory for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lagos de Montebello</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=340</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After going to Oventik I looked into going to another Zapatista caracol, La Realidad, which lies close to Laguna Miramar, a large, pristine lake surrounded by tropical rainforest. I would spend a night in the caracol, and the next day hike into the lake, through the jungle, to camp on its shore for a night. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Zapatistas</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=305</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Cristobal is a hub of political activity in southern Mexico. Many non-profits are based in the town, working for all kinds of causes. The Zapatista rebellion of 1994 was directly felt in San Cristobal and the surrounding region spreading eastwards to the Lacondon forests. Although the Zapatista army is demobilized, it has catalyzed a vibrant [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Huítepec, a Scrap of Cloud Forest</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=275</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huítepec is a well-known place among international birders. It has a fragment of cloud forest protected in a reserve close to San Cristobal, and cloud forests can be so much fun to bird! As well as crescent-chested warbler, various trogons and other cloud forest species, I was on the lookout for the fabled pink-headed warbler. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>San Cristobal de las Casas</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=265</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I arrived in San Cristobal (about two weeks ago)  just in time to go out to dinner with my friends Peter and María Elena, who I hadn&#8217;t seen in sixteen years. Peter and I worked together in Costa Rica and Nicaragua during the turbulent 1980&#8217;s. Peter´s mother was visiting too, so I began a needed [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Trash birds. . . and deforestation</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=139</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in a bus winding along the serpintine road from Palenque to San Cristobal de las Casas, I remembered what one of our Bacalar hosts had said, such a long time ago. She had been living in Bacalar for four years, leading wildlife and birding tours, and only recently had added great-tailed grackle to her [&#8230;]]]></description>
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