{"id":17275,"date":"2012-06-14T13:07:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T20:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17275"},"modified":"2012-06-14T13:07:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T20:07:29","slug":"kiwi-in-wyoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=17275","title":{"rendered":"Kiwi in Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hi, I am Alex and I’m Interning this summer with Adrienne Pilmanis, the state lead for Botany, BLM\u00a0based out of the Wyoming State office.<\/div>\n

The past four weeks\u00a0have been a huge jump\u00a0for me, moving from the now seemingly tiny and temperate country of New Zealand and being plonked down in the middle of a gigantic, dry continent. I’m having fun getting my head around the way\u00a0“things work” in this\u00a0country…banking, insurance, driving on the right hand side of the road [Insert long and ever expanding list here]…you know, all those things you take for granted when you’ve grown up with them and your parents showed you how to do them?? It seems many of my instincts are nul and void\u00a0over here.<\/p>\n

Despite necessary evils of getting my life organised, I’m absolutely loving being here!\u00a0I guess it helps that the first weeks of work involved driving up to Lander and into the Big Horn Basin area with Adrienne. I spent the past 2 weeks\u00a0visiting beautiful places and\u00a0learning about\u00a0what plantey things people are doing in this state, especially with regards SOS, plant conservation and reclamation planning\/studies.\u00a0Its fascinating and I’m really excited!<\/p>\n

Here are a few pictures taken on said adventures, I have many more if anyone\u00a0is interested in seeing lots of pictures of landscapes, flowers, often with bugs in them…\u00a0also small mammals (we don’t actually have native mammals in NZ, and\u00a0I’m a fan,\u00a0so this place is full of endless entertainment for me).<\/p>\n

\"Fossicking<\/a>

SOS Scouting the sagebrush near gashills with Lander interns botanizing in beautiful places<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Barneby's<\/a>

Looking for dieback in sensitive species endemic to Wyoming<\/p><\/div>\n

\"More<\/a>

Botanizing in Beautiful places<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Back in the office this week to do some “real work”… But looks like more explorations are lining themselves up soon \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
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