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		<description><![CDATA[Number 9 on our Top Ten highlight list is the outpouring of feedback about Caltrans&#8217; Lee Vining Rockfall Safety Project, the most recent Caltrans project proposed for the Mono Basin. This project will address six roadcuts on the west side of Highway 395 near Old Marina, increasing safety by preventing rocks from falling onto the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Mono Lake Committee Annual Report</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/11/28/2012-mono-lake-committee-annual-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elin, Communications Coordinator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mono Lake Committee&#8217;s 2012 Annual Report is hot off the press and available to view online! Read about the 2011 projects and activities in our focus areas of protection, stream restoration, education, and scientific research. View the Committee&#8217;s financial information for 2011, see a breakdown of our membership, and find our yearly ecological footprint accounting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A flight for the birds: Eared Grebe aerial survey</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/10/21/a-flight-for-the-birds-eared-grebe-aerial-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica, Project Specialist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday morning, October 13, a small plane flew over Mono Lake. It banked multiple times, and then flew across the lake over and over. A sightseer? No, this was scientific research in action&#8212;the annual Eared Grebe aerial photo survey! A bit of background: Eared Grebes nest in the northern Rockies and southern Canada, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USGS to create subsurface map of Mono Basin</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/10/20/usgs-to-create-subsurface-map-of-mono-basin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/10/20/usgs-to-create-subsurface-map-of-mono-basin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie, Project Specialist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visitors to the Mono Basin and Long Valley area in the next two weeks can expect to see golden aspen trees, snow dusted peaks, and something quite unusual&#8212;a lone helicopter flying only 500 feet from the ground. The helicopter marks an exciting new development in an ongoing project by the US Geological Survey (USGS) to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy new (water) year!</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/10/12/happy-new-water-year-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/10/12/happy-new-water-year-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg, Information &#38; Restoration Specialist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012 water year recently came to a close. Happy new 2013 water year! What is a water year? It is said that hydrologists get to celebrate a new year at least four times a year&#8212;January 1st for a calendar year, April 1st for a runoff year, July 1st [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video of Elden Vestal&#8217;s testimony on Mono Basin historical conditions now online!</title>
		<link>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/09/29/video-of-elden-vestals-testimony-on-mono-basin-historical-conditions-now-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.monolake.org/today/2012/09/29/video-of-elden-vestals-testimony-on-mono-basin-historical-conditions-now-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg, Information &#38; Restoration Specialist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to recent efforts of California Trout, a video of part one of Elden Vestal&#8217;s November 3, 1993 deposition is now on YouTube. You can watch the hour and forty-seven minute video here on the Mono Basin Clearinghouse. Elden was a California Department of Fish &#38; Game Fisheries Biologist whose deposition was instrumental in establishing [...]]]></description>
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