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		<description><![CDATA[Mark your calendar and tell your friends&#8212;the Mono Lake Committee is hosting the first Wild &#38; Scenic Film Festival in Los Angeles! When: Thursday, March 8, 2012, 7:00pm Where: The Landmark Theater, 10850 West Pico Blvd, West Los Angeles Tickets: will be for sale online soon&#8230; The Wild &#38; Scenic Film Festival was started by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outdoor Experiences participant wins Dreamers Challenge grand prize</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/01/23/outdoor-experiences-participant-wins-dreamers-challenge-grand-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arya, Communications Director</dc:creator>
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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>Mono Lake visitor center gets closer to hooking up solar</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/01/23/mono-lake-visitor-center-gets-closer-to-hooking-up-solar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arya, Communications Director</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a promising update for those of you following the recent story in the Los Angeles Times regarding dozens of solar energy facilities with national parks and forests that are waiting for grid connections while Southern California Edison hashes out contracts. According to the LA Times, &#8220;The Forest Service said Friday that it expected to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend storm brings snow and highway closures</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/01/22/weekend-storm-brings-snow-and-highway-closures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/01/22/weekend-storm-brings-snow-and-highway-closures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn, Project Specialist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dry spell has been broken here in the Mono Basin. On Saturday morning I awoke to a winter wonderland&#8212;snow covered the streets and the Mono Lake Committee&#8217;s back porch. A Pacific storm hit the Sierra Nevada this weekend and brought with it high winds, rain, snow, and highway closures. As of this afternoon Tioga [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tioga Pass closing tonight according to NPS website</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/01/17/tioga-pass-closing-tonight-according-to-nps-website/</link>
		<comments>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/01/17/tioga-pass-closing-tonight-according-to-nps-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn, Project Specialist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After several weeks of unseasonably dry weather here in the Mono Basin, the weather forecast shows a change coming at the end of this week. High chances of snow and rain are predicted starting Wednesday night through the weekend. What does this mean for road conditions? As of today at 5:00pm the Yosemite National Park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild &amp; Scenic Film Festival in Nevada City</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/01/17/wild-scenic-film-festival-in-nevada-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/01/17/wild-scenic-film-festival-in-nevada-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn, Project Specialist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend the South Yuba River Citizen&#8217;s League (SYRCL) held their tenth annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival in Nevada City. Communications Director Arya Degenhardt, Education Director Bartshe Miller, Eastern Sierra Policy Director Lisa Cutting, and I were lucky enough to be able to go to this exciting event and see the world premiere [...]]]></description>
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