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	<title>Northern California Hiking Trails Blog &#187; Environment and Northern California Hiking Trails</title>
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	<description>Dayhikes and Backpacking: Bay Area &#124; Coast and Redwoods &#124; Sierra Nevada &#124; Cascade Range &#124; Klamath Mountains</description>
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		<title>Funny Spoof on BP Oil Spill</title>
		<link>http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/2010/06/12/funny-spoof-on-bp-oil-spill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[British Petroleum has created one of the major environmental disasters of the century. Doesn&#8217;t mean we can&#8217;t have a laugh&#8230; Courtesy of UCB Comedy. Brought to my attention by Tom Chandler at Trout Underground. Your thoughts? Related Posts:How to Survive a Bear AttackWatch a Dog Steal a Bone from a SupermarketClimb Up So Kids Can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gambolin&#8217; Man on the Trees of Northern California</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gambolin&#8217; Man has written another beautiful and insightful essay, this time about the special qualities of trees: Trees! Ah! Delightful and important living specimens that offer up their bountiful shade, indulge us with sensorial and aesthetic pleasures, and induce ecstatic joy in our lives at their mere presence and sight. Related Posts:Gambolin&#8217; Man&#8217;s New Mexico [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wilderness Land Trust Protects 320 Acres in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wilderness Land Trust just reported two important land acquisitions in two of my favorite California wilderness areas: the Trinity Alps Wilderness and the Mount Shasta Wilderness, which both have a lot of hiking trails. The Wilderness Land Trust, and similar organizations such as the Siskiyou Land Trust, purchase property and help protect wild lands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental Resources Programs at College of the Siskiyous in Weed, California</title>
		<link>http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/2009/08/15/environmental-resources-programs-at-college-of-the-siskiyous-in-weed-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As most regular readers of the Northern California Hiking Trails blog know, I live in Siskiyou County near Mount Shasta, one of the major hiking heavens of the western United States. There&#8217;s an excellent opportunity for outdoors lovers who want to learn an environmentally friendly profession to move to this area and get a specific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Castle Lake Clean-Up This Saturday, July 25</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Castle Crags Wilderness Hiking and Backpacking Trails]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Castle Lake Limnology Lab]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/?p=332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Castle Lake, nestled in the Trinity Divide mountains near Castle Crags Wilderness, ranks as one of my favorite Mount Shasta spots. I get up there several times a year, swimming in the lake on hot days or hiking the trail up to Heart Lake or further away to Little Castle Lake and Mount Bradley Ridge. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shasta River and Big Springs Get More Help: 1.6 Million Dollars Worth</title>
		<link>http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/2009/07/04/shasta-river-and-big-springs-get-more-help-16-million-dollars-worth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/?p=303</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I explained recently, I&#8217;ve adopted the Shasta River. It flows into Lake Shastina, and I hike near Lake Shastina from my house several times a week. Great news: the federal government is helping out the Shasta River and Big Springs, which is a major tributary to the Shasta River. Here&#8217;s the skinny from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whiskeytown Lake Trails Reopen, Including Whiskeytown Falls</title>
		<link>http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/2009/04/11/whiskeytown-lake-trails-reopen-including-whiskeytown-falls/</link>
		<comments>http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/2009/04/11/whiskeytown-lake-trails-reopen-including-whiskeytown-falls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh joyous day, the many beautiful trails in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area have reopened now that the major danger of slides has passed. The timing couldn&#8217;t be better &#8212; the flowers are bursting and streamflow and waterfalls are peaking. So now is a great time to hike the many paths around and near Whiskeytown Lake, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snowpack Still Subpar: Hikers Must Adjust</title>
		<link>http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/2009/04/07/snowpack-still-subpar-hikers-must-adjust/</link>
		<comments>http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/2009/04/07/snowpack-still-subpar-hikers-must-adjust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just got the latest snowpack numbers for my part of Northern California &#8211; Redding and points west, north, and east &#8211; and it ain&#8217;t good. But it could be and certainly has been worse. The Redding Record-Searchlight has an article with the latest info on snowpack: It&#8217;s not normal, but it is better than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Non-Native Fish in Northern California Mountain Lakes</title>
		<link>http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/2009/03/27/revisiting-non-native-fish-in-northern-california-mountain-lakes/</link>
		<comments>http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/2009/03/27/revisiting-non-native-fish-in-northern-california-mountain-lakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last November I wrote about the California Department of Fish and Game restocking ban of non-native fish in the high mountain lakes of Northern California. It generated heated debate. Many day-hikers and backpackers love to make fishing a part of the backtrails experience. I just found this press release from the US Forest Service Pacific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nature Conservancy&#8217;s Protects Part of the the Shasta River Watershed</title>
		<link>http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/2009/03/18/nature-conservancys-protects-part-of-the-the-shasta-river-watershed/</link>
		<comments>http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/2009/03/18/nature-conservancys-protects-part-of-the-the-shasta-river-watershed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, I live in the Lake Shastina area just north of Mount Shasta. The Shasta Valley hold both Lake Shastina and the Shasta River. I have unofficially adopted the Shasta River: I want to protect its health, and so I pay attention to what&#8217;s happening to it. The Shasta River, a [...]]]></description>
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