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		<title>Wildflower of the Week: Scarlet Bugler</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 01:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scarlet Bugler (Penstemon centranthifolius) blooming on the lower slopes of Devil&#8217;s Peak in the Ventana Wilderness. Attention-grabbing stalks of Scarlet Bugler are currently blooming throughout the drier and hotter parts of the Santa Lucia Mountains, making it a natural choice for Wildflower of the Week. This plant, whose Latin name translates from its Greek roots [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xasauantoday.com&#038;blog=2687909&#038;post=3939&#038;subd=xasauantoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>White Redwood Resurrection</title>
		<link>http://xasauantoday.com/2012/05/15/white-redwood-resurrection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 03:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many, many years the banks of this precipitous South Coast stream were the home of the tallest white redwood (that we knew of anyway) to be found anywhere in the Santa Lucia Mountains. We&#8217;re not going to take sides in the argument over exactly how tall it was. Estimates range from 30 to 50 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xasauantoday.com&#038;blog=2687909&#038;post=3933&#038;subd=xasauantoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wildflower of the Week: Douglas Iris</title>
		<link>http://xasauantoday.com/2012/05/03/douglas-iris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 17:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana) on Skinner Ridge. Douglas Iris, which blooms from as early as February to as late as June, currently appears to be at the height of its display for this year, so we&#8217;re making it our Wildflower of the Week. The Iris family (the Iridaceae), named for the Greek goddess of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xasauantoday.com&#038;blog=2687909&#038;post=3927&#038;subd=xasauantoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death on the Little Sur</title>
		<link>http://xasauantoday.com/2012/04/12/death-on-the-little-sur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xasauan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Fork Little Sur Among many wild and beautiful streams in the Santa Lucia Mountains, the North Fork of the Little Sur River stands out as one of the wildest and most beautiful. Rising on the north face of the Double Cone, it drains a deep, nearly trail-less, basin heavily forested with redwood and, unusually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xasauantoday.com&#038;blog=2687909&#038;post=3918&#038;subd=xasauantoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wildflower of the Week: Silver Lupine</title>
		<link>http://xasauantoday.com/2012/03/26/silver-lupine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xasauan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we’ve fallen a little behind in choosing a wildflower of the week, so we’re going to make up for it by choosing silver lupine (Lupinus albifrons): one of California’s most ubiquitous flowers. Although it leaks across the border a little into Southern Oregon and Northern Baja, this perennial shrub is a true Alta Californian. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xasauantoday.com&#038;blog=2687909&#038;post=3906&#038;subd=xasauantoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mayors to Decide How Serious They Are About Avoiding Rationing</title>
		<link>http://xasauantoday.com/2012/03/22/mayors-serious-rationing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xasauan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mouth of the Carmel River as viewed from Whaler&#8217;s Knoll at Pt. Lobos Are Monterey Peninsula leaders really serious about avoiding rationing? We’ll find out tonight, as the mayors’ new Monterey Peninsula Regional Water Authority decides whether or not to expand its mission to include seeking additional water for growth. Back in February, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xasauantoday.com&#038;blog=2687909&#038;post=3901&#038;subd=xasauantoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Real Rain &#8230; Finally</title>
		<link>http://xasauantoday.com/2012/03/19/some-real-rain-finally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Santa Cruz Mountains may have gotten most of the rain and left our rainfall totals still languishing way below average, at least there&#8217;s now a little water in the creeks and some snow on the hills.  For the first time since last fall it&#8217;s &#8230; finally &#8230; starting to seem like a rainy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xasauantoday.com&#038;blog=2687909&#038;post=3894&#038;subd=xasauantoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cycling the Peachtree-Cholame Country</title>
		<link>http://xasauantoday.com/2012/03/12/peachtree-cholame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xasauan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long road across the Salinas Valley. The high ridges of the Southern Diablo Range beckon us on. Entering the hills. This range of hills lies to the south of the Gabilans (which reach their southern end around Chalone Creek) and to the west of what&#8217;s generally considered to be the Diablo Range &#8230; yet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xasauantoday.com&#038;blog=2687909&#038;post=3882&#038;subd=xasauantoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wildflower of the Week: Crimson Columbine</title>
		<link>http://xasauantoday.com/2012/03/08/crimson-columbine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xasauan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crimson Columbine (Aquilegia formosa) Although we spent last weekend riding around on bikes and sailboats, rather than out in the hills, we are reliably informed that crimson columbine is now coming into bloom. So we&#8217;re making it our Wildflower of the Week. A member of the Buttercup Family (the Ranunculaceae), this hummingbird favorite is native [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xasauantoday.com&#038;blog=2687909&#038;post=3873&#038;subd=xasauantoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened to FORA&#8217;s $100 Million?</title>
		<link>http://xasauantoday.com/2012/03/06/foras-100-million/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xasauan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cyclists enjoying Ft. Ord backroads Keep Fort Ord Wild, the coalition that formed last year to protect open space and trails on the former Ft. Ord, filed suit against the Fort Ord Reuse Authority (FORA) yesterday. The lawsuit seeks to enforce the California Public Records Act and compel FORA to reveal what was done with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xasauantoday.com&#038;blog=2687909&#038;post=3864&#038;subd=xasauantoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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