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	<title>Pacific Environment Blog &#187; Russian Far East</title>
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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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		<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>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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<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>Videos from Kamchatka</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/08/videos-from-kamchatka/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Climate Change At Its Worst: Wild Fires Plague Russia</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/08/climate-change-at-its-worst-wild-fires-plague-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>galina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Hearing news every day about forest fires in central Russia and the casts of smog choking Russian cities, villages, even more so&#8211; the city of Moscow, I could not ignore this subject.  I wanted to look at the reasons behind this natural disaster and discuss ways such disasters could be prevented, and if not, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stumbling Upon Poachers</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/08/stumbling-upon-poachers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Back in July, Igor and I went to visit a partner who conducts anti-poaching patrols in the Nalichego Nature Park, not far from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. We had to take a boat to his home within the park and, after a day-long tour, rode back to the truck to head home. As we turned a corner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My trip to Olkhon Island</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/07/my-trip-to-olkhon-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>galina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Olkhon is the third-largest lake-bound island in the world, and the largest in Lake Baikal with an area of 730 square kilometers (280 sq mi). On the evening of July 2nd, I arrived in Khuzhir, the administrative center of the Olkhon Island. I planned to spend the weekend finalizing a grant proposal and meeting with local activists. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trekking in Kamchatka&#8217;s Wild &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/07/trekking-in-kamchatkas-wild-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I have never seen so many insects in my life. Tiny black flies, quarter-sized mosquitoes and enormous horseflies competed to distract Tatiana Indanova as she crouched at the edge of a spring-fed creek in the 90-degree afternoon heat, using one hand to collect aquatic insect larvae, or benthos, while swatting the biting insects with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trekking Through Kamchatka&#8217;s Wild</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/07/treking-through-kamchatkas-wild/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Kolya is the kind of boss that everyone at once prays they will have and dreads they will end up with. As a leader he is nearly flawless; knowledgeable, experienced, and deadly calm under pressure. As a teacher, he is all of these things, but also impatient, short-tempered, and sarcastic. Kolya is the indigenous [...]]]></description>
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