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		<title>Great Backyard Bird Count</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sebastiani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Joe Sebastiani, Seasonal Program Team Leader Images by Derek Stoner, Conservation Project Coordinator Derek Stoner and I led the Delaware Nature Society&#8217;s traditional Breakfast and Great Backyard Bird Count program this morning.  The Great Backyard Birdcount is a continent-wide citizen science bird survey run the National Audubon Society where anyone can participate today through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of Spring Contest Returns!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Stoner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Derek Stoner, Conservation Project Coordinator Twelve days ago the world-famous groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter from atop his prognosticating perch in Pennsylvania.  On that day in Delaware, we basked in 60-degree temperatures.  Then this past weekend, we shivered in 20-degree blast of Arctic air that came packing a double dose of snow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crossroads Comes to Dupont Environmental Education Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sebastiani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lesley Bensinger, Education Coordinator, Dupont Environmental Education Center On January 31st 18 students from Crossroads of Delaware came to the DuPont Environmental Education Center (DEEC) to participate in a ‘What’s in the Water?’ field study.  We enjoyed mild winter temperatures as we researched the answer to this question.  Students used pond nets, a fish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red-headed Woodpecker Winter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sebastiani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joe Sebastiani, Seasonal Program Team Leader It must be a good year for American beech nuts in the local forests, or at least at the Bucktoe Creek Preserve.  There is an old saying&#8230;&#8221;No mast, no Red-heads&#8221;.  This means that if not many beech nuts and acorns grew this year, Red-headed Woodpeckers aren&#8217;t much interested in sticking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Fire to the Piedmont Landscape</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Stoner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Derek Stoner, Conservation Project Coordinator and Jared Judy, Flintwoods Preserve Land Manager A new type of land managment tool is arriving in the Piedmont of Delaware, and this is one of the most simple techniques with which to revitalize grassland habitats:  Fire! This past Spring, on March 29, for the first time in known memory a prescribed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Plant Count</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sebastiani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ashland Nature Center]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joe Sebastiani, Seasonal Program Team Leader Photos by David Smith; Plant Information by Janet Ebert Birders have their Christmas Bird Counts.  Lepidopterists have their 4th of July Butterfly Count.  Astronomers have their Star Parties.  Herpetologists have their reptile round-ups and calling frog surveys.  Why should botanists miss out on the fun! This is why [...]]]></description>
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