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	<title>Pacific Environment Blog &#187; Russia</title>
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		<title>Russian Activists Visit to US Pacific Northwest to Talk Fire Management</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2012/04/russian-activists-visit-to-us-pacific-northwest-to-talk-fire-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>audrey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[black carbon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pacific Environment recently hosted a group of four Russian environmental activists for a really great exchange program which brought them to eastern Washington and northern Idaho to meet with a spectrum of groups that are in varying capacities involved in agricultural burning and wildfire management. Over ten packed days, we met with community advocacy groups, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia &#8211; Let&#8217;s Restore Our Forests!</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/08/russia-lets-restore-our-forests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>audrey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=1374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Agricultural burning and resultant forest fires are much more than a public health and safety threat for Russia – rampant burning sends thick plumes of black carbon to the North during the spring and summer, leaving a dark layer on Arctic ice when the sun shines the longest, causing the ice to warm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Books about Kamchatka’s Salmon; from the rivers to the kitchen</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/02/beautiful-books-about-kamchatka%e2%80%99s-salmon-from-the-rivers-to-the-kitchen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 300 years ago, one of the first researchers of the Kamchatka Peninsula, George Stelleronce wrote: “Kamchatka lives almost solely on fish. If you hit the water with a spear you rarely miss a fish.  Fishing nets or seines are useless in Kamchatka for that reason.  It’s impossible to drag them ashore, they tear because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Following Flex</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/02/following-flex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arctic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Endangered species]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=888</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A western gray whale named Flex has been receiving media attention worldwide for being the first of his kind to be tagged and tracked.  He is a 13 year old western gray whale that was tagged on October 4th, 2010 by Russian and American scientists off of Sakhalin Island in eastern Russia. His precedence is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Environmental Values in the Russian Far East</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/12/teaching-environmental-values-in-the-russian-far-east/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/12/teaching-environmental-values-in-the-russian-far-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first met Arina Shurygina at the Keepers of the Salmon festival. It was amazing to see how much love she put into teaching about the salmon life cycle, its constitution, and peculiarities. It seemed that there was nothing more important to her than to teach each student how many fins a salmon has and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Cultural Revival in Kamchatka: Alkhalalalai and the Itelmen Community</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/10/a-cultural-revival-in-kamchatka-alkhalalalai-and-the-itelmen-community/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/10/a-cultural-revival-in-kamchatka-alkhalalalai-and-the-itelmen-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arctic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Almost every culture has a celebration to give thanks to nature for the previous year, the harvest, and the supplies stored for the winter. The Itelmen, one of the most ancient peoples of Kamchatka, call this holiday Alkhalalalai which is traditionally celebrated on the last weekend of September.  Recently this holiday has been celebrated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Arctic:  A Territory of Dialogue</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/09/the-arctic-a-territory-of-dialogue/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/09/the-arctic-a-territory-of-dialogue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[offshore oil drilling]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=711</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A few years ago, experts came together to discuss potential scenarios for the Arctic.  They discussed what the Arctic would look like in 50 years in the face of climate change and intensified resource development. The experts developed several scenarios, ranging from a race by countries to extract natural resources to armed military conflict, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passing Culture Through the Generations</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/09/passing-culture-through-the-generations/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/09/passing-culture-through-the-generations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This past weekend we were fortunate to attend the Golden Springs Festival, which celebrates the creative arts of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia, and Far East. The festival took place in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The festival’s gala concert was held in the recently refurbished drama theater. The performers met their guests at the theater’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working to Save the Sacred Lands of Altai</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/09/working-to-protect-sacred-sites-in-altai/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/09/working-to-protect-sacred-sites-in-altai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>galina</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My recent trip to Altai was my third since last year and every time I traveled through the Republic, it was a time for reflection and discovery. My former colleagues and friends who have worked or still work in Altai warn me that it is a special and sacred place, and that once visited, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Videos from Kamchatka</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/08/videos-from-kamchatka/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/08/videos-from-kamchatka/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I shot the following videos at Lake Azabache and in Bistrinsky Nature Park in central Kamchatka during a mid-July trip with my colleague Igor Goldfarb. Here you can see a spawning stream filled with sockeye salmon as they complete the final leg of their journey to the spawning grounds. When I took this video, [...]]]></description>
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