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		<title>Sheep Conditioning 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Butte near Palmer is ready for climbing. It is one of the first hills here in the Matanuska Valley that is free of ice and snow early each spring. I just climbed it this morning, along with about 47 other &#8230; <a href="http://www.tonyruss.com/blog/?p=65">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Heat of Spring in Alaska</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are basking in the heat of spring here in Alaska. At least it feels like heat after several months of record snowfalls and low temperatures in several locations. It&#8217;s wonderful to walk on dry pavement in sunny temperatures of &#8230; <a href="http://www.tonyruss.com/blog/?p=61">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Grouse Eggs Have Hatched</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three weeks after finding this spruce grouse nest in my back woods, I discovered the eggs had hatched &#8211; June 14th. The hen and her little chicks had left, with one unhatched egg left behind. Yesterday I took the neighbor &#8230; <a href="http://www.tonyruss.com/blog/?p=53">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Wonders of Nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alaska outdoors is full of sights and sounds this time of year. Birds are returning and nesting here in the Matanuska Valley - some right in our back yards. On one of daily walks my Lab jumped a female grouse &#8230; <a href="http://www.tonyruss.com/blog/?p=48">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gun Dog Training in the Valley</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 21:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many Alaska outdoor adventures during summer in the Matanuska Valley is retriever training. Last weekend I took my Labrador to the first picnic fun hunt test of the summer. These type of retriever field trials are meant to &#8230; <a href="http://www.tonyruss.com/blog/?p=42">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fishing in the Valley</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 04:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tried the Kepler Bradley lake sytem here in the Matanuska Valley yesterday. Every lake I visited had visible spawning trout near shore; 14-24&#8243; range. One lake had 70-80 visible from one spot in a 100&#8242; circle. Fun to see &#8230; <a href="http://www.tonyruss.com/blog/?p=40">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Three Months &#8217;til Opening Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 18:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May is a great month to work on conditioning for a sheep hunt, or any mountain hunt. Here is Alaska, the warmer weather (60 degrees yesterday) has us all thinking of summer activities like fishing, rafting, hiking and camping. But it&#8217;s still too &#8230; <a href="http://www.tonyruss.com/blog/?p=38">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conditioning for the Alaska Outdoors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 22:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Matanuska Valley has several picturesque trails I use for conditioning. The Matanuska Lakes Trail system connects to the Crevasse Moraine Trail System. Together they contain over twenty miles of trails with dozens of ups and downs over the moraines left by the &#8230; <a href="http://www.tonyruss.com/blog/?p=33">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Valley Lakes are Opening</title>
		<link>http://www.tonyruss.com/blog/?p=29</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 20:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, I should be in the Alaska outdoors - casting into the recently opened edges of our Matanuska Valley lakes. Virtually all of them have at least 20-30 feet of open water along the edges, some much more. &#8230; <a href="http://www.tonyruss.com/blog/?p=29">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hunting Dogs Grow up Quickly</title>
		<link>http://www.tonyruss.com/blog/?p=26</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 02:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 21-month-old Labrador amazed me yesterday. Not having owned a hunting dog previously, I wasn&#8217;t expecting him to mature over the winter without training on specific tasks. I took Taiga out back to our meadow to throw and plant two &#8230; <a href="http://www.tonyruss.com/blog/?p=26">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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