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	<title>Comments on: $22,600 For The Alfred Smith Nature Reserve</title>
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		<title>By: Micro</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Micro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 23:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yea, all these reserves and the environmental charities along with government agencies do very little to preserve the native and endemic plants and animals that call those areas home.

There&#039;s no reason today that we don&#039;t see the Cedar forests of the centuries past re-growing other than total neglect and complete disregard for the environment. There are many areas (marked as open space), that should&#039;ve been populated with cedars and other native/endemic plants decades ago that have been left to be overgrown by invasives. Even in most of our National Parks invasive species are the most prominent foliage.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yea, all these reserves and the environmental charities along with government agencies do very little to preserve the native and endemic plants and animals that call those areas home.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no reason today that we don&#8217;t see the Cedar forests of the centuries past re-growing other than total neglect and complete disregard for the environment. There are many areas (marked as open space), that should&#8217;ve been populated with cedars and other native/endemic plants decades ago that have been left to be overgrown by invasives. Even in most of our National Parks invasive species are the most prominent foliage.</p>
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		<title>By: Think twice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Think twice]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get the stink vine out before it takes over even from the pepper trees. This is a valuable piece of property for nature preservation.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get the stink vine out before it takes over even from the pepper trees. This is a valuable piece of property for nature preservation.</p>
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		<title>By: Catherine Wakely</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Wakely]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 17:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fantastic!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fantastic!</p>
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