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	<description>Observations on oak health, tree care, organic farming, gardening, forest decline, acid rain, climate change, Gaia . . . by Lee Klinger</description>
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		<title>Encino heritage oak</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Klinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve often said that every tree tells a story. Well, there’s a heritage oak in Encino, California that has a story to tell.
As most of you may know the live oaks and tan oaks of California are dying off in large numbers as a result of stresses brought about by decades of fire suppression. Oaks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suddenoaklifeorg.wordpress.com&blog=6642661&post=771&subd=suddenoaklifeorg&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ecological research backs fire mimicry approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Klinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science Daily is reporting on a new study that documents the importance of fire feedbacks in maintaining savanna woodlands. Fire feedbacks are the ecological basis for employing fire mimicry to restore the oak savannas here in California.  While I don&#8217;t have much faith in the mathematical models that these scientists are using, it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suddenoaklifeorg.wordpress.com&blog=6642661&post=764&subd=suddenoaklifeorg&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fire mimicry results with oaks, pines, and more . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Klinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as I would like to post more frequently on all the interesting work that is going on in land and tree stewardship, the fact is that I spend most of my time out working on the trees and soils, which leaves me limited time for blogging. There is so much I can do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suddenoaklifeorg.wordpress.com&blog=6642661&post=742&subd=suddenoaklifeorg&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Early season rainfall pH measurements in Big Sur</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Klinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is some news for those of you interested in following the story of acid rain in Big Sur. The first rains have arrived here in Big Sur in a big way, 8.45&#8243; of rain fell between Oct. 12 and 14. The pH readings on the first 3 inches of rain averaged 5.41, the highest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suddenoaklifeorg.wordpress.com&blog=6642661&post=740&subd=suddenoaklifeorg&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming workshop on tree and soil care at La Casa de Maria</title>
		<link>http://suddenoaklifeorg.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/the-history-and/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Klinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF NATIVE TREE CARE
Saturday, October 10, from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm
La Casa de Maria Retreat Center, 800 El Bosque Road, Santa Barbara, CA
For thousands of years the native Chumash people tended the oak forests in the Santa Barbara. Now California’s oaks are endangered. Come for a workshop that will include [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suddenoaklifeorg.wordpress.com&blog=6642661&post=734&subd=suddenoaklifeorg&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Lee Klinger interviewed on Sustainable World Radio</title>
		<link>http://suddenoaklifeorg.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/dr-lee-klinger-interviewed-on-sustainable-world-radio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Klinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday there was an interview about my work with the trees on Sustainable World Radio. Here is the podcast:
http://www.pdcastsusworldradio.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=517650

I haven&#8217;t listened to it yet, but after I do I will post comments as needed.

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		<title>More coast live oaks on the mend</title>
		<link>http://suddenoaklifeorg.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/two-more-coast-live-oaks-on-the-mend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Klinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s further evidence that fire mimicry treatments are helping our diseased oaks. In 2005 I began treatment of two sick coast live oaks (Quercus agrifolia) growing in acidic soils in Mill Valley, CA. Each of the oaks had thin canopies and bleeding stem cankers. The owner informed me at the time that UC Berkeley scientists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suddenoaklifeorg.wordpress.com&blog=6642661&post=722&subd=suddenoaklifeorg&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using fire mimicry to treat early leaf senescence in California buckeyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Klinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The buckeye (Aesculus californica) is a deciduous tree, low and broad in stature, that is endemic to California. Every year these trees extend their gratitude by offering up a harvest of enormous size nuts. The species is a vital part of the California ecosystem and ever so worthy of our attention. Some even believe that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suddenoaklifeorg.wordpress.com&blog=6642661&post=707&subd=suddenoaklifeorg&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coast live oaks responding to fire mimicry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Klinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The use of repeat photography to document temporal changes in trees and landscapes was one of the many fine techniques I learned from my PhD advisor Prof. Tom Veblen. He taught me the importance of replicating details such the lens focal length, sky conditions, and time of day. My photos don’t always live up to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suddenoaklifeorg.wordpress.com&blog=6642661&post=688&subd=suddenoaklifeorg&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fire mimicry effects on Douglas firs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 19:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Klinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you may have observed, it’s not just the oaks that are suffering here in California. Problems are seen in the pines, the bay laurels, the sycamores, and the redwoods. Douglas firs are sick and dying in many places, especially towards the coast. Symptoms such as a thin canopy, a heavy cover of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suddenoaklifeorg.wordpress.com&blog=6642661&post=682&subd=suddenoaklifeorg&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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