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		<title>Climate Change and the Grand Canyon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s called the Dragon Bravo fire, and it has burned well over 140,000 acres on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, taking the historic Lodge and many of the guest cabins with it. Whether we’ve been there or not, mark this loss as one of enormous proportions. Sitting on the canyon rim, the view of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Honoring the Gift of Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my next life I want to be an otter. I’ve seen their playful slides in the snow, and the fact that they can outdo us when it comes to catching trout has me sold. Agile in the water, happy on land, a joy to watch as they lope along like furry slinkies, and, oh, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jalisco and the Refugee Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Jalisco state in Mexico rings in the ears with mariachi music and brightly dressed dancers twirling, while onlookers toast glasses of tequila.  Both this iconic music and the even more iconic drink fermented and distilled from the blue agave are said to have been born there.  Nat King Cole and Elvis sang the praises [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fifty Five Earth Days Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2025 marks the fifty fifth Earth Day.  The local chapter of the Citizen&#8217;s Climate Lobby and our NAOMI friends invite you to celebrate another Beloved Community Earth Day in Wausau at Westview Terrace Park (1501 Bissell St) at 10 AM on Saturday, April 26th. &#160; Wisconsin and Earth Day go back a long way together.  [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>EARTH DAY 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Barth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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	2025 marks the fifty fifth Earth Day.  The local chapter of the Citizen&#8217;s Climate Lobby and our NAOMI friends invite you to celebrate another Beloved Community Earth Day in Wausau at Westview Terrace Park (1501 Bissell St) at 10 AM on Saturday, April 26th. &#160; Wisconsin and Earth Day go back a long way together.  [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Earth Day 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Modern Abolitionists &#8211; All</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 05:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I remember trout fishing in the mountains just east of Salt Lake City when we lived there in the &#8217;60s.  Beautiful, clear, achingly cold streams in mountain valleys so picturesque you almost didn&#8217;t care if you caught any fish at all.  The prize might well have been just breathing in the view along with the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Indinawemaaganidog &#8211; We are ALL Related</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many Native American tribes have a word meaning &#8220;We are ALL related&#8221;.  For the Ojibwe people that word is Indinawemaaganidog.  It represents a concept foreign to English speakers in its all-encompassing inclusivity.  Not only are all people part of a single family, but so is all of life on this fine planet, including rocks and mountains, rivers [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>November Marsh Marigolds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Barth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 05:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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	If not the very first to flower in the Central Wisconsin spring, the radiant yellow Marsh Marigold is by far the most exciting of the spring ephemerals.  These perky bouquets love shallow seeps of water, poking their golden heads above a green nest of round edged leaves, and where conditions are favorable, they carpet the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WALLS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Barth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 04:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Robert Frost said it first and clear enough: “Something there is that doesn&#8217;t love a wall.”    His walls were stony ones, upended and broken by frosty, heaving ground.  The walls I do not love are stony too, built not on pastureland, though, but in the hearts of men and women.  These heart-stone walls, held fast [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Frog Song, Earth Song and the Rights of Nature</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Barth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 04:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Late in the afternoon, about three months ago my wife and I were given the opportunity to time travel right here in Central Wisconsin, and we took it. Time machines are stashed here and there in these parts, though to most they would look like a pond, or a small wetland, or even the little [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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