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		<title>&#8220;Knowing&#8221; the Past, Present and Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>petyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After posting a recommendation on our Wildflower Facebook page of a local oak savanna remnant (Helen Allison SNA in northern Anoka county) that provides some wonderful  views of the broader landscape of just a century or more back, a fan made this comment: “but we really don&#8217;t know. I often wonder, driving through the county [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategies for weed control in the home landscape.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>petyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff from Stillwater writes: I started out with tilling my lawn into a garden 10 years ago. The first couple of years I was getting your typical weeds like any gardener. Then in one year I had 30 cubic yards of dirt brought in and I got my hands on free manure,not sure from what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comment on USFS Land Exchange with PolyMet Mining</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>petyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[29 November, 2010 James W. Sanders, Forest Supervisor Superior National Forest 8901 Grand Ave. Place Duluth, MN 55808 I am concerned about the proposed land exchange between the USFS and PolyMet Mining Inc. This is nothing about a “fair” land swap – but as noted – a “connected action” to a proposed environmentally destructive project. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Baneberry</title>
		<link>http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/blog/photo-of-the-day/red-baneberry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 02:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K Chayka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photo of the Day]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[spring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actaea rubra The backdrop was a sea of wild ginger, Asarum canadense, in the woods at Battle Creek park.]]></description>
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		<title>The joys of creeping charlie&#8230;?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/blog/commentary/the-joys-of-creeping-charlie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K Chayka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I found a message in my inbox from a fellow in Ohio: &#8220;In any temperate climate, rich-soil, damp, slightly to somewhat shady place (like much of Minnessota&#8217;s environment and any low area between two rivers)&#8230; this ivy is FAR easier to maintain as a groundcover than grass. It won&#8217;t get tall, it won&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutchman&#8217;s Breeches</title>
		<link>http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/blog/photo-of-the-day/dutchmans-breeches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K Chayka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dicentra cucullaria It looks like this species is almost done blooming for the season. I only found a few flowering plants left at Coon Rapids Dam today.]]></description>
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		<title>Snow Trillium</title>
		<link>http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/blog/photo-of-the-day/snow-trillium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K Chayka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trillium nivale A rare species in Minnesota, found around Hastings.]]></description>
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		<title>Pasqueflower</title>
		<link>http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/blog/photo-of-the-day/pasqueflower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K Chayka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Reports]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[orchid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pulsatilla patens Pasqueflower is now blooming at the Baxter/Brainerd Northland Arboretum. Got several good photos but I liked this one best. Thanks to Theresa Klaman for leading us to them. On another note, we found last year&#8217;s remains of a fair number of Goodyera tesselata (Tesselated Rattlesnake Plantain) in a Jack Pine stand along SR64 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not banned, so it must be OK (part II)</title>
		<link>http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/blog/commentary/its-not-banned-so-it-must-be-ok-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/blog/commentary/its-not-banned-so-it-must-be-ok-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K Chayka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invasive species]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I received an email: Subject: Polygonum cuspidatum roots are required! Dear Sir/Madam, I would like to purchase the roots of Polygonum cuspidatum (Japanese knotweed) for planting purpose. Could you please inform me that you can supply it or you know someone others supply it? Thanks! Yours truly, SL, Ph.D. Note the Ph.D. I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Release: 2010 Weed Program Funding</title>
		<link>http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/blog/announcements/news-release-2010-weed-program-funding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/blog/announcements/news-release-2010-weed-program-funding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K Chayka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Minnesota’s Wildflowers submitted their 2010 Legislative funding initiative to Senator Satveer Chaudhary, Chairman of the Senate’s Natural Resources Committee, requesting $300,000.00 for the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s state weed program.]]></description>
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