{"id":17365,"date":"2012-06-14T13:09:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17365"},"modified":"2012-06-14T13:09:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T20:09:11","slug":"home-on-the-rangeland-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=17365","title":{"rendered":"Home on the Range(land Monitoring)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m here in Lakeview, Oregon, interning with the BLM with a handful of\u00a0other interns. We\u2019re all working on different types of plant projects,\u00a0and so the past few weeks have been a whirlwind of getting to know\u00a0everything we\u2019re seeing out here. \u00a0Being from Northeast Ohio, I\u2019m used\u00a0to identifying forest wildflowers and deciduous trees, but in Lakeview\u00a0I\u2019m becoming a pro at getting to know grasses, \u00a0shrubs, and little\u00a0scrubland flowers. \u00a0As a rangeland monitoring intern, I help to check\u00a0long-term plots within BLM lands that ranchers periodically use for\u00a0grazing. \u00a0Some of the plots we check have been established in the\u00a01970s, and so the photos and data we take are used to compare the\u00a0health of the land to what it used to be. \u00a0We record what species are\u00a0in certain areas and try to assess the health of the rangeland. We\u00a0also have been measuring shrub cover, mainly of sagebrush, to help\u00a0collect more information for the infamous sage-grouse.
\nThe transects that we run to get all of our data can get a bit\u00a0repetitive, but the BLM has a ton of land here and we drive out to\u00a0lots of different sites and see a lot of landscape. \u00a0The driving\u00a0itself has proved to be a bit of an adventure, with lots of old bumpy\u00a0roads that take some practicing to get a handle on. We\u2019re near an Air Force base and so we often see low flying jets and hear roaring sonic\u00a0booms out in the middle of the scrub desert. A little eerie, but being\u00a0out so far from big roads and any towns has also been really\u00a0refreshing. It seems that every day I find a new plant that I haven\u2019t\u00a0learned yet to take back to the office and identify. \u00a0I\u2019m excited for\u00a0more flowers to start blooming and the grasses to get greener and\u00a0fuller as the season continues. \u00a0We see lots of pronghorn out in the\u00a0field, as well as hawks, eagles, rabbits, and lizards. No snakes or mountain lions so far, but we\u2019ll see how the summer goes!<\/p>\n

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