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		<title>The Guns are Silent in the Maine Woods</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acadia National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[firearms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunting fatalities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunting laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunting season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine Hunting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The daily (except Sunday) banging of firearms coming from the woods, is over for another year.  True, Acadia National Park is always closed to hunting. In fact, some park roads are closed in firearms season to discourage poaching. For the rest of us, we can now venture outside without wearing orange. This hunting season in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mushrooming in Lamoine, ME</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Good Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fall like most we attended the Common Ground Fair in Unity. While there, we listened to a talk by Greg Marley, our local (Rockland, ME) mycologist (mushroom expert), mycophile (mushroom lover) and mycophagist (mushroom eater). His talk was meant to put an end to mycophobia. Marley sees the world as divided into the mycophobic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latona Spring, Lamoine&#8217;s Free Pure Water Source</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acadia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamoine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apollo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blunt's Pond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goddess Latona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamoine pure water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine spring water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Latona was a goddess of Roman origin. Daughter of Caeus the Titan and Phoebe, or, according to Homer, of Saturn, and mother of Apollo and Diana. For our town, I assume one particular legend of Latona&#8217;s applies. She was banished to earth and earth people were forbidden from giving her comfort by the jealous goddess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thuya Gardens of Northeast Harbor, Maine</title>
		<link>http://www.affordableacadia.com/2011/thuya-gardens-of-northeast-harbor-maine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acadia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northeast Harbor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles K. Savage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gertrude Jekyll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Island Explorer bus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph H. Curtis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Desert Land & Garden Preserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thuja]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paired up with Asticou Gardens, Thuya Gardens offers a beautiful formal English  garden set in a native Maine woodland. Asticou tends to the Japanese, so visiting both in close proximity is quite a world tour. &#8220;Thuya&#8221; is a derivation of Thuja, which is the genus of the northern white cedar, Thuja occidentalis. While botanists know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo Trek to Acadia/Bar Harbor</title>
		<link>http://www.affordableacadia.com/2011/photo-trek-to-acadiabar-harbor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affordableacadia.com/2011/photo-trek-to-acadiabar-harbor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 13:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acadia National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Things To Do]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[on island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel J. Cox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Layne Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Geographic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photographing Acadia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wildlife Conservation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A website called mentorseries.com pairs up professional photographers with paying guests for treks to different parts of the world, and in September they are coming  here.  Leading this trek will be Daniel J. Cox, a veteran nature photographer and frequent contributor to National Geographic, National Wildlife and Wildlife Conservation; and Layne Kennedy, whose work has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assaulted by Spruce</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 13:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acadia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamoine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[falling trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine storms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spruce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I came back from a working trip to northern Michigan to find that during my absence four tall spruce trees were threatening SeaCat&#8217;s Rest.  Apparently there had been a big storm. One had fallen on our deck, one hung at a sickening angle over our driveway, one had fallen on our power lines (this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Reprise for Bar Harbor</title>
		<link>http://www.affordableacadia.com/2011/winter-reprise-for-bar-harbor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affordableacadia.com/2011/winter-reprise-for-bar-harbor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acadia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bar Harbor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colorful characters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lou McNally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snowfall in Maine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A nice, fresh blanket of snow. It&#8217;s enough to make you&#8230;.tear your hair out! Enough already! It&#8217;s April! I have often said that the coast of Maine does not fit into the image of Maine as a place of arctic whiteness, but with this winter&#8217;s six months of the stuff I have to eat my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello Snow</title>
		<link>http://www.affordableacadia.com/2010/hello-snow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affordableacadia.com/2010/hello-snow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acadia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality of life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acadia snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter in Maine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter survival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, December 6, downeast Maine awoke to a thick blanket of snow, the first this year. The snow is wet and the ground underneath is muddy, making it difficult to plow. This means at SeaCat&#8217;s Rest a significant amount of dirt will end up on the neighbor&#8217;s lawn which will have to be raked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MDI Cranberries 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.affordableacadia.com/2010/mdi-cranberries-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affordableacadia.com/2010/mdi-cranberries-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acadia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Out on the water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cranberries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great blue heron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine kayaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northeast Creek]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The wild cranberry crop on Mount Desert Island is still awaiting harvest, except for the several pounds I collected on Sunday the 17th. What was different about this year was the high water level: you have to harvest from a boat and reach into the water. The berries can be seen under 3-8 inches of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawkwatch 2010, Cadillac Mountain</title>
		<link>http://www.affordableacadia.com/2010/hawkwatch-2010-cadillac-mountain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affordableacadia.com/2010/hawkwatch-2010-cadillac-mountain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acadia National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Things To Do]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hawks on Cadillac Mountain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Park Rangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raptors in Acadia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now is the time of year when visitors to Acadia National Park may find the skies filled with raptors. They migrate from the north to the south in fall, and they like to stick by the shore to be close to a resting spot. Otherwise, the ocean is their preferred highway since it offers the [...]]]></description>
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