{"id":17491,"date":"2012-07-03T09:54:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17491"},"modified":"2012-07-03T09:54:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:54:41","slug":"back-in-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=17491","title":{"rendered":"Back in the field"},"content":{"rendered":"

Midway through June it\u2019s finally beginning to feel like summer is truly here, especially now that I\u2019ve managed to have several full field days. Last month I put on my environmental educator hat and helped out with a few projects outside of the botany realm I normally work in \u2013 first by leading a group of Junior High students through a series of activities to monitor water quality, and then a few weeks later by helping to prepare a poster and presentation about sage-grouse for a Migratory Bird Day walk. It was fun to work on something different, and great to introduce some young(er) people to how much fun field work can be.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Greater Sage-grouse Tail. Photo by Dan Dzurisin, Licensed through Creative Commons 3.0<\/p><\/div>\n

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After these interesting non-botany projects, I also got to start in on the 2012 field season plant work. We put in a few new plots and read old plots to monitor Astragalus debequaeus, Penstemon grahamii, Physaria obcordata, <\/em>and Physaria congesta<\/em>. It\u2019s been a dry year in Colorado, so the Astragalus debequaeus<\/em> especially seems to be struggling, but we\u2019re hopeful that they\u2019ll bounce back next year. That monitoring was particularly interesting, because A. debequaeus<\/em> is a new species for me. The others were fun, in familiar scenery and with some familiar faces that I met during the monitoring trips last year. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, Darnisha, the new CLM intern in our office, arrived this week. This means that we have a great excuse to begin SOS, and have been out scouting. We\u2019ve identified several nice looking populations, and are hopeful that this will be a good collection year. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hooray summer!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sama Winder
\nBLM CO State Office<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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