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	<description>Tasty Tidbits for Conchs &#38; Conch Wannabees</description>
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		<title>Free Plant Clinics in the Florida Keys March 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Monroe County Extension office offers free plant clinics by master gardeners who can help with plant and/or insect problems. Bring sick plants for diagnosis or insects for identification to:
• Key West, 1 to 4 p.m. Monday March 15, Extension office, second floor, Gato Building, 1100 Simonton St., suite 2-260;
• Key Largo, 9 a.m. to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/03/01/free-plant-clinics-in-the-florida-keys-march-2010/</link>
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		<title>FWC Proposes More Protection for Bonefish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contact: Lee Schlesinger, 850-487-0554
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission FWC proposed draft rule amendments Thursday to provide more protection for bonefish, a premier saltwater game fish in Florida.&#8221;Bonefish are a tremendous Florida resource,&#8221; said FWC Chairman Rodney Barreto.  &#8220;These proposed rules will strengthen our management approach to protect and preserve bonefish so that anglers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/02/18/fwc-proposes-more-protection-for-bonefish/</link>
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		<title>Manatees Succumb to Climate Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Written by PP Rega
The unusually cold weather that struck Florida in January has killed at least 5 percent of West Indies manatees this year. That amounts to 280 in all.
What is the significance of this news? 
* No more Manatee-ka-bobs
* McDonald&#8217;s can no longer sell &#8220;Big Manatee with Fries and a Coke.&#8221;
* Postponement of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/02/15/manatees-succumb-to-climate-change/</link>
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		<title>Florida Key&#8217;s Sea Base: 30 Years of Adventure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By ROBERT SILK Free Press Staff
ISLAMORADA &#8212; In the late 1970s, Sam Wampler was tasked with finding a home base for a new Boy Scouts of America program that provided adventures on the high seas for scouts from around the country.
Wampler, at the time the camping director for the Boy Scouts&#8217; Miami region, found the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/02/10/florida-keys-sea-base-30-years-of-adventure/</link>
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		<title>Hurricane Whodat Warning For The Florida Keys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NOAA – 6 Feb 2010 10:00 EST
Outlook for the Atlantic, Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico…
Hurricane Whodat is predicted to make landfall on the South Florida coast in the vicinity of Miami on 7 Feb 2010 at approximately 2200Z (5:00 PM EST). 
This extremely powerful hurricane is expected to produce damaging Shockey waves and Category [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/02/06/hurricane-whodat-warning-for-the-florida-keys/</link>
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		<title>You might be a fisherman if..</title>
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1. You have a power worm dangling from you rear view mirror because you think it makes a good air freshener.
2. You wedding party has to tie tin cans to the back of your boat.
3. You call your boat &#8220;sweetheart&#8221; and your wife &#8220;skeeter.&#8221;
4. Your local tackle shop has your credit card number on file.
5. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/02/05/you-might-be-a-fisherman-if/</link>
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		<title>More Lobster Mobsters Sentenced to Prison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff
Two Bay Point men were sentenced to a year in prison on charges that they conspired to poach lobster, a judge ruled Monday, closing the last chapter on two illegal lobster harvesting cases that snared eight people.
John Buckheim, 23, and Nick Demauro, 24, both apologized to federal Judge James Lawrence King, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/02/02/more-lobster-mobsters-sentenced-to-prison/</link>
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		<title>Key West Casa Marina Resort Tops List of Best U.S.Budget Resorts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forget everything you thought you knew about resorts. These 10 escapes deliver thrilling activities, plush amenities, and sweeping views, from $119 a night.
Casa Marina Resort
The 311-room beachfront Casa Marina is in tropical, laid-back Key West, Fla., where Ernest Hemingway bummed around in the 1930s (The Old Man and the Sea is based on his experiences [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/01/30/key-west-casa-marina-resort-tops-list-of-best-u-s-budget-resorts/</link>
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		<title>What is the Legacy of Legacy in Key West?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Hurricane Wilma blew the 158-foot Perini Navi sailing yacht into a federally protected nature preserve in the fall of 2005, she was held for 28 months by the clutches of the environment.
Now, at anchor in Key West Harbor, she is held in the clutches of an insurance dispute. And while the dispute plays out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/01/25/what-is-the-legacy-of-legacy-in-key-west/</link>
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		<title>FWC Temporarly Prohibits &#8220;Harvesting&#8221; Snook, Tarpon &amp; Bonefish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FWC responds to widespread cold-weather saltwater fish kills
January 15, 2010
Contact: Lee Schlesinger, 850-487-0554
Executive Order 10-02 (Dead Fish)
Executive Order 10-03 (Snook, Tarpon, Bonefish)
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has issued executive orders to protect Florida&#8217;s snook, bonefish and tarpon fisheries from further harm caused by the recent prolonged cold weather in the state, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/01/16/fwc-temporarly-prohibits-harvesting-snook-tarpon-bonefish/</link>
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