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		<description><![CDATA[Mono Lake Committee Outdoor Experiences Manager Santiago Escruceria gives everyone a nickname. Beyer High School senior Tom Rydquist&#8217;s was &#8220;Mr. Muffin.&#8221; In December 2011 the California Museum and Comcast announced that Rydquist won the Northern California Grand Prize in their Dreamers Challenge for a video he produced. His video &#8220;Funding the American Dream: Helping California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#1: The Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve is open!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve guessed it &#8230; our #1 highlight for Mono Lake in 2011 was getting the Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve removed from California&#8217;s state park closure list. It was, first and foremost, a group effort&#8212;with Mono Lake Committee members playing a key role in writing and signing thousands of letters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#2: The new Mono Lake Story film</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the classic Mono Lake Committee history stories starts something like this &#8230; in the late 1970s, Mono Lake Committee founder David Gaines toured tirelessly around California with a carousel of slides and a call to help a dying lake&#8212;talking to anyone who would listen. Well, you know the rest of the story &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arya, Communications Director</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2011 the Mono Lake Volunteers, in addition to their regular work helping Mono Lake visitors have a great experience, played a critical role in helping get the Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve off the state park closure list. It is partnerships programs like the Mono Lake Volunteer program that show everyone from legislators [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#4: Big strides towards a 21st century aqueduct</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2011/12/28/4-taking-steps-towards-a-21st-century-aqueduct/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arya, Communications Director</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in the office we call it the Collaborative Aqueduct Modernization &#38; Management Plan, or CAMMP for short. But when we say things like, &#8220;Geoff, Lisa, and Morgan are CAMMP-ing,&#8221; it&#8217;s not what it sounds like. CAMMP is a State Water Board mandated series of facilitated meetings embarked upon by the Los Angeles Department of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#5: 20 Outdoor Experiences groups in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2011/12/27/5-20-outdoor-experiences-groups-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arya, Communications Director</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Committee&#8217;s Outdoor Experiences program began in 1994 with visits from two community-based organizations: Mothers of East Los Angeles, Santa Isabel and the Los Angeles Conservation Corps&#8212;who were part of the water conservation toilet retrofit program in LA. Who would have imagined that in 2011 we would host 20 groups from Los Angeles and beyond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#6: Restoration stewardship volunteers tackle invasive plant species</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2011/12/26/6-restoration-stewardship-volunteers-tackle-invasive-plant-species/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arya, Communications Director</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Invasive plant species removal is nothing if not a gigantic task&#8212;which is where a whole lot of good, old-fashioned, hands-on restoration stewardship comes in. In 2011 volunteers came out of the woodwork to help tackle the problem of invasive plant species (as well as tree-watering and garbage pick-up)&#8212;from participants in the Outdoor Experiences program to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#7: Mono County Big Day record &#8230; broken!</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2011/12/25/7-mono-county-big-day-record-broken/</link>
		<comments>http://www.monolake.org/today/2011/12/25/7-mono-county-big-day-record-broken/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arya, Communications Director</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You simply must read the fun and heartwarming post by Birding Intern Oliver James, who captures the spirit of the intrepid bird lovers responsible for this feat perfectly. Even if you&#8217;re not a birder this is a great story. As it turns out, the crew was so enthusiastic that just days later they did a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#8: Fun events connecting ideas, people, and Mono Lake</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2011/12/24/8-fun-events-connecting-ideas-people-and-mono-lake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arya, Communications Director</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Number 8 of the top 11 of 2011 is actually recognition of three major celebrations&#8212;the Andrea Lawrence Award Dinner, the Mono Basin Bird Chautauqua, and the Defender of the Trust Award ceremony. Yee-haw! In April we held the first annual Andrea Lawrence Award Dinner at Parallax Restaurant in McCoy Station on Mammoth Mountain with keynote [...]]]></description>
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