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                <title><![CDATA[World-record bass update]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[The IGFA finally received documentation on the possible new world record largemouth bass&#8212;caught in Lake Biwa in Japan&#8212;and could rule on the catch at any time. Click here for the column I wrote about Manabu Kurita and his catch back in early July. Click here for the announcement on the IGFA&#8217;s Website.]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:11:10 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[The Jewel of Richmond]]></title>
                <link><![CDATA[http://www2.richmond.com/content/2009/aug/16/jewel-richmond/]]></link>
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                <description><![CDATA[Best known as the creator of Connecticut, the Indian statue at The Diamond, the Arthur Ashe statue on Monument Avenue and Neptune in Virginia Beach,&nbsp;Paul DiPasquale said the city&rsquo;s hills and its river are among its best attributes.]]></description>
                
                
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                <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[VIDEO: Day in the Life of Paul DiPasquale]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Paul DiPasquale kayaks on the James River and talks about what a wonderful resource the river is.]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Wonderful Waters]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Hopewell Native Dove into Politics to Save Rivers]]></description>
                
                
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                <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Does England have a second favorite carp?]]></title>
                <link><![CDATA[http://www2.richmond.com/content/2009/aug/14/does-england-have-a-second-favorite-carp-85578/]]></link>
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                <description><![CDATA[The British are in mourning over the news that Benson, once voted Britain&#8217;s favorite carp (no, seriously), has died. Click here to read the story in the Times of London.]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:02:45 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[B.A.S.S. back at Smith Mountain Lake in 2010]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[BASS recently announced its revised 2010 Bassmaster Elite Series regular-season schedule. Following the adjustments made in 2009, BASS altered the 2010season schedule to reflect the new format, which will consist of eight regular-season Elite Series events, followed by the Bassmaster Elite Series postseason.&nbsp; With the announcement, BASS eliminated the Battle on the Border (April 15-18; Lake Amistad; Del Rio, Texas), Empire Chase (July 21-24; Lake Champlain; Plattsburgh, N.Y.) and Champion&#8217;s Choice (July 29-August 1; Lake Erie; Buffalo, N.Y.) from the previously announced schedule.&nbsp; Additionally, BASS moved the date of the Blue Ridge Brawl from Aug. 12-15 to April 15-18. The ...]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:39:22 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Snowflex]]></title>
                <link><![CDATA[http://www2.richmond.com/content/2009/jul/08/snowflex-95346/]]></link>
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                <description><![CDATA[You may have missed this as you paged through Sunday&#8217;s Metro section. It was an &#8220;Around The State&#8221; brief, but it bears a little further discussion. On August 29th Liberty University will unveil the first ski slope in North America featuring &#8220;Snowflex,&#8220; a synthetic fiber meant to mimic real snow. It sounds, crazy, I know, but click here to watch a video about it. I promise you&#8217;ll be intrigued. And of course, you&#8217;re intrepid Outdoors columnist isn&#8217;t about to let the opportunity pass to go skiing in August. Look for a column on my trip to the Liberty Mountain Snowflex ...]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:19:43 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Virginia Quota/Lottery Hunts]]></title>
                <link><![CDATA[http://www2.richmond.com/content/2009/jul/04/virginia-quotalottery-hunts-25654/]]></link>
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                <description><![CDATA[False Cape State Park is the site of one of the game department&#8217;s most popular lottery hunts. There are a ton of lottery/quota hunts offered in the state of Virginia, many of which take place on state parks and national wildlife refuges that are only open to hunting for a few days a year. They&#8217;re a great opportunity to hunt somewhere you&#8217;d otherwise never get the chance. Last year, for instance, I hunted False Cape State Park for feral hogs during a lottery hunt. Anyway, the game department just released the list of quota/lottery hunts for 2009-2010. It&#8217;s worth taking ...]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:12:13 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[World record spadefish]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[A report from Capt. Julie Ball out of Virginia Beach: Pending IGFA All tackle World Record Atlantic Spadefish 14lbs, 14oz 13 June I had the privilege of speaking with a gentleman last night who experienced the catch of a lifetime. Roland E. Murphy was fishing at the Cell aboard the &#8220;Kingfish&#8221; captained by Allen King and his first mate, Sherie King, all of Fredericksburg, Virginia. They were in search of big spadefish, and caught a handful, and lost around 15 or so. Roland was up next when the rod in the holder doubled over. But this was no ordinary spadefish. ...]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:40:40 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Riverrock Outdoor Festival]]></title>
                <link><![CDATA[http://www2.richmond.com/content/2009/may/14/riverrock-outdoor-festival/]]></link>
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                <description><![CDATA[Need-to-know info on this weekend's first-ever Riverrock Fest.]]></description>
                
                
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                <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Bike to Work Day, Week, Month]]></title>
                <link><![CDATA[http://www2.richmond.com/content/2009/may/12/bike-to-work-day-week-month-96827/]]></link>
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                <description><![CDATA[May is National Bike Month, this week is National Bike to Work Week, and Friday is National Bike to Work Day. So in honor of these occasions, I present to you the League of American Bicyclists&#8216; list of the most and least bike friendly states. Click here to learn more about bike month and bike week events in Richmond and throughout Virginia. I will be celebrating bike to work day on Friday by joining two friends in Cumberland, Md. to start our three-day journey down the C&amp;O canal towpath by bike. Actually, that the trip and bike to work day ...]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 May 2009 19:12:32 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[White-nose syndrome in bats]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[The above was taken in Breathing Cave in Bath County, Va. You can see the white fungus around the nose of a bat in the middle of the hibernating cluster. There are a number of Websites out there with good information on white-nose syndrome. Let&#8217;s start with some sites focusing on bats and WNS in Virginia: Click here for the DGIF press release from a couple of weeks ago confirming WNS in Virginia&#8230;and here for some info on WNS in Va. from the Department of Conservation and Recreation. The National Speleological Society maintains a number of related links. Click here ...]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:40:37 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Save the planet: Get rid of your cat]]></title>
                <link><![CDATA[http://www2.richmond.com/content/2009/apr/06/save-the-planet-get-rid-of-your-cat-88877/]]></link>
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                <description><![CDATA[Seriously, wanna be &#8220;green?&#8220; Lose Mr. Bigglesworth. Click here to find out why.]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:40:15 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Cypress Bridge Swamp joins Va. Natural Area Preserve system]]></title>
                <link><![CDATA[http://www2.richmond.com/content/2009/mar/31/cypress-bridge-swamp-joins-va-natural-a-05306/]]></link>
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                <description><![CDATA[Above photo by Gary P. Fleming, Va. DCR Roughly 380 acres along the Nottoway River are now preserved as Cypress Bridge Swamp Natural Area Preserve by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. This tract of land is home to some of the largest trees in Virginia, with some reaching around 100 feet tall and 12 feet in width. This property also includes the previous record-holder of Virginia&#8217;s largest tree: the bald cypress called &#8220;Big Mama,&#8221; which is deceased but should remain standing for decades. Cypress Bridge Swamp becomes the 57th site dedicated to Virginia&#8217;s Natural Area Preserve System, which ...]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:59:13 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[More on Shed Hunting]]></title>
                <link><![CDATA[http://www2.richmond.com/content/2009/mar/27/more-on-shed-hunting-86384/]]></link>
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                <description><![CDATA[There was a ton from my conversations with Matt Knox (above, with Izzy) that didn&#8217;t make it into today&#8217;s column on shed antler hunting. Here are a few highlights. On when to go shed hunting: You can start finding sheds as early as late December. I don&#8217;t get serious until February 1st and that&#8217;s still a little early. Mid-February to mid-March is by far the best time. On why all deer hunters should shed hunt: It provides a tremendous opportunity to scout. If you want to learn where the deer are and where they&#8217;re moving on your property, you think ...]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:00:40 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Cars and bikes living together]]></title>
                <link><![CDATA[http://www2.richmond.com/content/2009/mar/25/cars-and-bikes-living-together-81209/]]></link>
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                <description><![CDATA[I wanted to pass along part of an email from reader Brandon Wright. I&#8217;ve had encounters similar to the one he describes while riding my bike on the road, and I think he&#8217;s exactly right. As for the column he links to here, I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with the writer&#8217;s take on &#8220;obnoxious riders&#8221; but I do think his conclusion is correct and worth considering in Virginia. Andy, I&#8217;ve read your stuff, and know that of all the people at the Times Dispatch who could get something like this column from the Baltimore Sun out there, it&#8217;d be you. I ...]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:24:58 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Bald eagle release]]></title>
                <link><![CDATA[http://www2.richmond.com/content/2009/mar/20/bald-eagle-release-60604/]]></link>
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                <description><![CDATA[This is a very cool story with a happy ending. The below press release is from the Wildlife Center of Virginia. The Wildlife Center of Virginia, a leading teaching and research hospital for native wildlife released an adult bald eagle on March 9 at the Dick Cross Wildlife Management Area near South Hill. Participating in the release was Ed Clark, president and co-founder of the Wildlife Center as well as staff from the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, who helped in the rescue of this eagle, including Sergeant Robbie Everidge.&nbsp; On February 16, at about 7:30 a.m., the bald ...]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:24:31 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Last wishes: Bury me in my '67 Chevy]]></title>
                <link><![CDATA[http://www2.richmond.com/content/2009/mar/18/last-wishes-bury-me-in-my-67-chevy-70666/]]></link>
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                <description><![CDATA[No, not me. Albert Dancy. The West Virginia native was recently buried in his favorite possession, his 1967 Chevy pickup, wearing Realtree camo and holding his Old Timer pocket knife and his Remington.243-caliber deer rifle. Seriously, this really happened. Click here for the article in the Charleston Daily Mail. Click here for the slideshow. Mr. Dancy&#8217;s last wishes have inspired me to put in writing, here for the first time, how I wish to &#8220;cross over&#8221; into the next world. If you are reading this and happen to be present at my funeral, please see to it that I am ...]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:01:02 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Pics of Devil' Backbone]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t get a chance to add any pics to the blog before last Sunday&#8217;s column on a new mountain bike race called the Devil&#8217;s Backbone Challenge (March 28th near Wintergreen). If you read the column, these should help you get a sense of the place. Maps of the race courses (beginner, sport, expert are all somewhat different) can be found by clicking here. All of the below pics were taken by Jesse Peters. The Devil&#8217;s Backbone Brewing Company, the race start/finish line, sits in the valley below Black Rock mountain, where Wintergreen Resort is located. The view from the ...]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:31:15 EDT]]></pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Devil' Backbone MTB race]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Here are some links for more information regarding today&#8217;s column on the Devil&#8217;s Backbone Challenge, a mountain bike race scheduled for March 28th near the Wintergreen ski resort. The race starts and ends at the Devil&#8217;s Backbone Brewing Company. After grabbing lunch there a couple of weeks ago, I can vouch for the quality of both the beer and the food. Top notch stuff. Click here to register for the race. A few factoids I didn&#8217;t get to mention in the column. According to Woody Elliott, who GPSed the whole course, the beginners will gain and lose a total of ...]]></description>
                
                <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:54:09 EDT]]></pubDate>
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