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    <lastmod>2017-07-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - San Joaquin Antelope Squirrel</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC specializes in San Joaquin Antelope Squirrel trapping.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - San Joaquin Antelope Squirrel</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC trapped and relocated San Joaquin antelope squirrels as part of mitigation for a pipeline project.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - San Joaquin Antelope Squirrel</image:title>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - San Joaquin Antelope Squirrel</image:title>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Badger</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC relocated a badger who had become trapped in this trash can.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Barn Owl</image:title>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizard</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC routinely provides protocol level Blunt Nosed Leopard Lizard surveys in the South San Joaquin Valley.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizard</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC routinely provides protocol level Blunt Nosed Leopard Lizard surveys in the South San Joaquin Valley.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizard</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC routinely provides protocol level Blunt Nosed Leopard Lizard surveys in the South San Joaquin Valley.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizards</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC routinely provides protocol level Blunt Nosed Leopard Lizard surveys in the South San Joaquin Valley.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizard</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC routinely provides protocol level Blunt Nosed Leopard Lizard surveys in the South San Joaquin Valley.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizard</image:title>
      <image:caption>Caudal autotomy is a defensive adaptation seen in lizards, allowing the tail to be shed in order to distract predators.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizard</image:title>
      <image:caption>Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizard and it's burrow.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizard</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC routinely provides protocol level blunt-nosed leopard lizard surveys in the South San Joaquin Valley.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizard</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC routinely provides protocol level blunt-nosed leopard lizard surveys in the South San Joaquin Valley.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizard</image:title>
      <image:caption>Blunt-nosed leopard lizard and it's burrow.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Western Burrowing Owl</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC provides Western burrowing owl monitoring.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC provides clients with population data using small mammal trapping.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Western Rattlesnake</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC species removal.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Western Burrowing Owl</image:title>
      <image:caption>Western burrowing owlets.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Barn Owl</image:title>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC uses trail cameras to monitor potential dens at night. This camera captured a picture of a kangaroo rat.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56031902e4b047f1e0c041d4/1452722758402-NS23JUKSO8YRF18S4Q4Z/Excavating+den2.JPG</image:loc>
      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Den Excavation</image:title>
      <image:caption>Potential dens are hand excavated to avoid harming sensitive species.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Den Excavation</image:title>
      <image:caption>Potential dens are hand excavated to avoid harm to any sensitive species.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Giant Kangaroo Rat Relocation Study</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC assisted in trapping and relocating Giant Kangaroo Rats using a new "soft release" technique designed to increase survival odds. Each enclosure had a burrow, nesting materials, and seed. Giant kangaroo rats were fitted with a radio transmitter before release.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Giant Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC assisted in trapping and relocating Giant Kangaroo Rats using a new "soft release" technique designed to increase survival odds. Each enclosure had a burrow, nesting materials, and seed. Giant kangaroo rats were fitted with a radio transmitter before release.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Giant Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC assisted in trapping and relocating Giant Kangaroo Rats using a new "soft release" technique designed to increase survival odds. Each enclosure had a burrow, nesting materials, and seed. Giant kangaroo rats were fitted with a radio transmitter before release.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Giant Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC assisted in trapping and relocating Giant Kangaroo Rats using a new "soft release" technique designed to increase survival odds. Each enclosure had a burrow, nesting materials, and seed. Giant kangaroo rats were fitted with a radio transmitter before release.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Giant Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC assisted in trapping and relocating Giant Kangaroo Rats using a new "soft release" technique designed to increase survival odds. Each enclosure had a burrow, nesting materials, and seed. Giant kangaroo rats were fitted with a radio transmitter before release.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Giant Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC assisted in trapping and relocating Giant Kangaroo Rats using a new "soft release" technique designed to increase survival odds. Each enclosure had a burrow, nesting materials, and seed. Giant kangaroo rats were fitted with a radio transmitter before release.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Giant Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC assisted in trapping and relocating Giant Kangaroo Rats using a new "soft release" technique designed to increase survival odds. Each enclosure had a burrow, nesting materials, and seed. Giant kangaroo rats were fitted with a radio transmitter before release.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Giant Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC assisted in trapping and relocating Giant Kangaroo Rats using a new "soft release" technique designed to increase survival odds. Each enclosure had a burrow, nesting materials, and seed. Giant kangaroo rats were fitted with a radio transmitter before release.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Giant Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC assisted in trapping and relocating Giant Kangaroo Rats using a new "soft release" technique designed to increase survival odds. Each enclosure had a burrow, nesting materials, and seed. Giant kangaroo rats were fitted with a radio transmitter before release.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Giant Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC assisted in trapping and relocating Giant Kangaroo Rats using a new "soft release" technique designed to increase survival odds. Each enclosure had a burrow, nesting materials, and seed. Giant kangaroo rats were fitted with a radio transmitter before release.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Trapping Grid</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC administers ongoing small mammal population studies.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kangaroo Rat scurries near a trap.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery</image:title>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kangaroo Rat is released after being weighed and sexed as part of a population study.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC employee weighing a kangaroo rat</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kangaroo rat survey</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery</image:title>
      <image:caption>Training at small mammal trapping grid.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>Small mamals are weighed and sexed as part of a population study.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Kangaroo rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kangaroo rat captured, logged, and released during small mammal trapping survey</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Kangaroo Rat</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kangaroo Rat and it's burrow.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Floristic Study</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC routinely monitors sensitive flora species.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - San Joaquin Woolly-Threads</image:title>
      <image:caption>Monolopia congdonii WKEC conducts botanical surveys for listed and endangered species.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Wildflowers</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC performs floristic surveys to monitor sensitive plan species.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - Side Blotch Lizard</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of several lizard species found in the western portion of Kern County.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - San Joaquin Coachwhip</image:title>
      <image:caption>San Joaquin Coachwhips mating.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Wildlife Gallery - San Joaquin Kit Fox</image:title>
      <image:caption>WKEC provides San Joaquin Kit Fox natal den monitoring. The nocturnal San Joaquin kit fox can be seen during early morning hours.</image:caption>
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