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		<title>Foibles of the $47,000 fish: the Connecticut River Atlantic salmon restoration, a poor return on investment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Foibles of the $47,000 fish: the Connecticut River Atlantic salmon restoration, a poor return on investment ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2010/03/01/foibles-of-the-47000-fish-the-connecticut-river-atlantic-salmon-restoration-a-poor-return-on-investment/</link>
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		<title>Stagnation at Turners Falls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An shorter version of this piece appears in the spring 2009 issue of Sanctuary Magazine as &#8220;Turners Falls Turnaround&#8221;
Stagnation at Turner  Falls    © 2008 by Karl Meyer

“It will not be forgotten by some memory that we were contemporaries,” Thoreau, on shad blocked by a dam.

I first watched a riot of migrating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2009/05/23/stagnation-at-turners-falls/</link>
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		<title>Towards a new Connecticut River; or, how to keep a dead fish alive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two hundred years after Darwin’s birth its time to stop thinking we are smarter than rivers; smarter than fish.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2009/05/23/towards-a-new-connecticut-river-or-how-to-keep-a-dead-fish-alive/</link>
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		<title>Confluence: a river blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Confluence: a river blog © 2009 by Karl Meyer


Confluence: entry one, January 28, 2009

I spent an hour walking in the snowy woods along the edges of a ridge that presides above the confluence of the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers. I walk there frequently. It’s a jumble of shorter and longer trails, some up, some down. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2009/01/30/34/</link>
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		<title>A Fun Depression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Fun Depression © 2009 by Karl Meyer


 A Fun Depression: blogging through

Entry 1: January 25, 2009

Since early fall&#8211;when the scale of this financial debacle was becoming glaringly clear, I have mentioned to friends the idea of making this a “fun depression.” Heck, by then most of us had already been steeped in a stew [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2009/01/29/a-fun-depression/</link>
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		<title>Fall&#8217;s well-fed bears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following article appears in the Fall 2008 edition of Santuary, from the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
 Fall’s well-fed bears, by Karl Meyer
I live bear country, Franklin County, west of the Connecticut  River. Rolling up into the heart of the Berkshires are the deep woods and mature nut and pine tree habitats that state biologists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2008/10/14/falls-well-fed-bears/</link>
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		<title>Lunar cycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Karl Meyer                                                                   August 21, 2008
 Lunar cycle
I spotted it, the spotted newt, in the half-dawn, half-moonlight. I wanted to just skip it, forget what I saw, but it had bubbled up into my consciousness that chilly, mid-August morning. It was in the road, alive. It could get squished.
It was a pact I’d made with myself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2008/08/21/lunar-cycle/</link>
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		<title>Homage to a too-long winter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[© 2008, Karl Meyer                             
This wren uses the stairs
The wren visits on the dreariest of winter days, and it uses the stairs.  I like the wren.  It visited today.  It prefers afternoon visits.  That’s fine with me.  It prefers days that are rainy, and gloomy, and somewhat out of synch.  That’s great too.  And it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2008/04/14/homage-to-a-too-long-winter/</link>
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		<title>March Madness</title>
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                                                                   © Karl Meyer 2008
                                   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2008/03/26/march-madness/</link>
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		<title>American Pastime</title>
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		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2008/02/27/american-pastime/</link>
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