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		<title>A life bird for me &#8211; the Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>judygva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was in Vancouver, Canada, visiting my family.  My sister mentioned that Snowy Owls had been sighted near Boundary Bay, about 20 miles south of Vancouver, so we went out to see them.   For those of you who are Harry Potter fans, Harry&#8217;s owl Hedwig is a Snowy Owl. Snowy Owls breed on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4102399&amp;post=5305&amp;subd=pwconserve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pecha Kucha, Nature and You</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Reardon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in horse racing? You should have heard Shirley Couteau’s talk on the Preakness Race at Pimlico, Maryland.  What about biomimicry – you know, that’s when a bullet train is designed to be as aerodynamic as the beak of a kingfisher, or a 6” drone is modeled on the physiology of bats. Or what about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4102399&amp;post=5289&amp;subd=pwconserve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uranium Mining &#8211; A risky proposition for Virginia</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/uranium-mining-a-risky-proposition-for-virginia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bryanna Altman The Virginia General Assembly is expected to vote  this  year (2012) on whether to lift a 30-year moratorium on uranium mining in Virginia.  Nuclear power is generated using uranium, a metal mined in various parts of the world. Nuclear power produces huge amounts of energy from small amounts of fuel, without the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4102399&amp;post=5268&amp;subd=pwconserve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia proposes end to participation with multi-state Commission aimed at protecting Potomac River</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Hosen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB) is an interstate agency created by the individual statutes of its member jurisdictions &#8211; Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Federal Government participation was approved by Congress in 1940. The ICPRB promotes collaborative watershed-based services aimed at improving and protecting water quality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4102399&amp;post=5243&amp;subd=pwconserve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nokesville Christmas Bird Count</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/nokesville-christmas-bird-count/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Hosen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Merrimac Farm WMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nearby Nature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Together a team of nearly 30 volunteers recorded 81 species at the Nokesville Christmas Bird Count on December 26 2011 (species list below the fold). Previous counts ranged from 82 species in 2008 to 86 species in 2009. Some species seen previous years were noticeably absent, including Red-breasted Nuthatches, Purple Finches, Horned Larks and Bobwhite. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4102399&amp;post=5227&amp;subd=pwconserve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Bluebird Trails at Chinn Park &amp; Merrimac Farm, People Helping Wildlife</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/2011-bluebird-trails-at-chinn-park-merrimac-farm-people-helping-wildlife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Hosen</dc:creator>
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		<title>A Very Special Spider</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/a-very-special-spider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>judygva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While walking in Julie Metz Wetlands earlier this week, I spotted a brown mass on a leaf.  It looked like a large bird dropping, and I thought it could also be a half eaten frog or toad.  I whipped out my trusty camera with macro lens and took a picture. To my surprise, it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4102399&amp;post=5211&amp;subd=pwconserve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occoquan Reservoir &#8211; A Rare Gem Worth Protecting</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/occoquan-reservoir-a-rare-gem-worth-protecting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Jeter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Use]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It may seem to most folks, if they think about it at all, that the Occoquan Reservoir is doing fine. It is true that major improvements were made in the 1970’s when Fairfax County down-zoned 41,000 acres and purchased 5,000 acre on the north side of the reservoir to prevent pollution. Also, the UOSA sewage treatment plant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4102399&amp;post=5192&amp;subd=pwconserve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Native! Part II</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/going-native-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Reardon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Merrimac Farm WMA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merrimac Farm a model for homeowners to emulate In my last blog, I explained how going native – homeowners using native plants to replace some or all of their lawn – was beneficial to the environment, and listed a couple of web sites with ideas to help them get started. Today’s focus is on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4102399&amp;post=5185&amp;subd=pwconserve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bugs are our friends:  Green Lacewing</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/bugs-are-our-friends-green-lacewing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>judygva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have seen a pale green, almost translucent insect with golden eyes, either flying around or perched on a leaf, it&#8217;s probably a Green Lacewing.  These delicate creatures are harmless, but their larvae are voracious predators, devouring soft-bodied pests such as mealy bugs, scale, spider mites, caterpillars, whitefly, leafhoppers, pest eggs and aphids. The female [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4102399&amp;post=5175&amp;subd=pwconserve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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