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		<title>Colville III- Alaskan Arctic River</title>
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The gravel bar is a jumble of jagged clay rock; there are fossils everywhere, worms and seashells, fragments of petrified wood, fern leaves, an ancient world frozen in stone. I imagine myself walking in an ancient arctic rain forest. We climb up the cliff above our tents following game trails and eating blueberries. There are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colville II- Alaskan Arctic River</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The owl flies silently over my head, white and brown wings making no sound…over the river into the tundra, the owl drops out of sight and then emerges from a fold in the land a small creature tucked in its talons…Screeching peregrine chicks hidden somewhere on the cliff face, strident calls, chaotic screaming…pleading, hidden from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Wilderness Music&#8221;  an excerpt from Bill Sherwonit&#8217;s new book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wilderness Music, excerpted from
Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska&#8217;s Arctic Wilderness
©2010 by Bill Sherwonit
At age 50, nature writer and wilderness advocate Bill Sherwonit went on the longest backpack of his life: fifty miles in two weeks, across mostly untrailed wilderness in America’s remotest and arguably wildest parkland, Gates of the Arctic National Park and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pik Dunes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rain all night…the clouds are down on the lake…It is a cold grey morning…Patches of blue sky breaking through until the days changes in character…Bright sun, light wind, blue sky…the grasses glowing yellow…Pools of water gathered in the folds of the dunes…the hum of the land is loud in my ears…There are no caribou to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colville I &#8211; Alaskan Arctic River</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Richard Kahn
There are no geese on the Colville…But, there are loons, and rough legged hawks, and peregrine falcons. We sat beneath a cliff as the peregrine screeched at us from above. A second falcon joined the first and together they screamed at us, warning us away from their nest. As the second falcon landed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you have a story or photo from the Ultima Thule?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ultima Thule, Adventures in America&#8217;s Northernmost Lands, is a website and anthology dedicated to education about and preservation of Alaska&#8217;s public lands in the Arctic. Featuring a blog of two trips to the Arctic this summer, one in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and one to the Western Arctic, the Ultima Thule is expanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving the land of light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the haze from faraway forest fires had cleared, we would often sit speechless watching the low light from the midnight Arctic sun paint the gentle hills and mountains around us. The light is perhaps one of the biggest gifts of the Arctic, one of the spectacles of this part of the world less noted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kills, ruins, pups and the circle of life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We rewarded ourselves after two long days of tundra and river travel with a rest day, getting out for a shorter hike and reading. Peter and I traded Pielou&#8217;s A Naturalist&#8217;s Guide to the Arctic and Barry Lopez&#8217; Arctic Dreams back and forth. We also both finished Pollan&#8217;s book, In Defense of Food.
Then we were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heading downstream&#8230; and back upstream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Post #3 from the Western Arctic trip. More posts coming over the next few days.)
It was time to get on the river. Wolves woke us again that morning with their howls, and we were reluctant to leave our wide embrace of gentle mountains and treeless tundra, where our eyes so easily roamed the slopes around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another surprise in the Western Arctic</title>
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(Post #2 from the Western Arctic trip. More posts coming over the next few days.)
Wolf howls woke us our second morning, which continued to astonish us as though they were the first we had heard. Before heading downriver in the Klepper, Peter and I wanted to explore more of the beautiful valley in which we [...]]]></description>
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