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    <description><![CDATA[I drive the dirt roads that stretch for miles across the grasslands. I drive slowly as the roads are rutted and rough and cross open cattle range. I often spot pronghorn running in the distance.]]></description>
    
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    <description><![CDATA[That first night, I tried to remember all I had learned but the details were lost. What I do remember is the gnarled, gray twisted bark of the whitebark pine: a representation of strife, turmoil, and persistence.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:07:12 -0600</pubDate>
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    <title>Unearthing Secrets:
A Day in a Montana Fen
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    <description><![CDATA[Squoosh. Squoosh. My feet, encased in calf-high rubber boots, sank into the thick sphagnum moss, and water crept up to my ankles. I pulled one foot free with a loud squelch, lunged towards the nearest hummock, then rescued my other foot.]]></description>
    
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    <title>It Began With A Heron
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    <description><![CDATA[It was an unseasonably warm first week of January. One late afternoon, as golden sunlight hid behind grey stratocumulus clouds hanging over the Clark Fork River, I came upon a Great Blue Heron.]]></description>
    
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    <title>Lichens
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    <description><![CDATA[I can’t stop staring at them. Their beauty seems otherworldly; they’re radiantly fluorescent against the snow. It’s almost scandalous, that neon green, that buzzing orange.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:34:20 -0600</pubDate>
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    <title>For the Wiley Coyote, Resistance is Fertile 

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    <description><![CDATA[At twilight, from my house in the sage, I hear the underdogs singing outto each other. Sometimes, I swear, it almost sounds like laughter.]]></description>
    
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    <title>Clam Digging at 8,000 Feet,

A Love Letter to the Oceans of Eastern Montana
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    <description><![CDATA[The first oceans I explored as a child were those of eastern Montana. I spent nearly three decades of my life in ancient oceans before I ever got my feet wet in a modern living ocean.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 10:13:44 -0600</pubDate>
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A Love Letter to the Oceans of Eastern Montana
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    <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 11:33:52 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Missoula phlox, or Phlox missoulensis; A species named after a town named after…]]></itunes:subtitle>

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    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:31:56 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I have chosen Montana as my home and embrace her seasonal night sounds, from…]]></itunes:subtitle>

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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:56:51 -0600</pubDate>
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    <title>Weight of Death, Leaves As Flowers
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    <description><![CDATA[It is February and still these branches are dressed in a flutter of leaves. Golden brown with a dark midrib and branching pinnate veins.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:56:16 -0700</pubDate>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:02:31 -0700</pubDate>
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    <title>Seasonal camouflage and the consequences of transitioning color phase too early</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:12:40 -0700</pubDate>
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    <title>T̓at̓áyaqn (Bitterroot Salish) ventured to the plains yearly to hunt q̓ʷiq̓ʷay (bison)</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Near Čmʔomʔotúlexʷ (Place of Smokey Land) or Yellowstone National Park, in -5-degree weather, I kneeled on my freshly skinned bison hide, which provided steaming warmth beneath me.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:09:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Near Čmʔomʔotúlexʷ (Place of Smokey Land) or Yellowstone National Park, in…]]></itunes:subtitle>

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    <title>Flock Talk: Conversing with Crows</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Summer brings more than blue skies and hot days to Montana. It’s during this time of the year that white-tailed deer fawns are born.]]></description>
    
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Summer brings more than blue skies and hot days to Montana. It’s during this…]]></itunes:subtitle>

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    <title>Tortoiseshell Butterflies</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:23:21 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[It was too soon for swirls of cascading autumn leaves, and the formation of…]]></itunes:subtitle>

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    <title>Banding Together</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Harriet the Osprey knew what was coming.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:28:08 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Harriet the Osprey knew what was coming.]]></itunes:subtitle>

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    <title>If I could only put that on paper.</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There is a pine needle on my kitchen table. There is a pine needle in my soul. If I could only put that on paper.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:39:26 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>If I could only put that on paper.</itunes:title>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[There is a pine needle on my kitchen table. There is a pine needle in my soul.…]]></itunes:subtitle>

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    <title>Night Songs In Autumn</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[As the days grow shorter and nights turn cooler, I find myself drawn outdoors at sunset.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:00:09 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Night Songs In Autumn</itunes:title>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[As the days grow shorter and nights turn cooler, I find myself drawn outdoors…]]></itunes:subtitle>

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