{"id":1760,"date":"2010-06-17T05:11:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2010-06-17T05:11:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T12:11:09","slug":"rain-rain-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"Rain, rain, go away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting our internships with the Bureau of Land Management in Roseburg, OR, has been an eye-opening experience for both of us. We are from New Hampshire and New Mexico, respectively, and neither of us had ever been to the Pacific Northwest before. We have had a lot of work to do just learning the hundreds of plant species we come into contact with every day. Additionally, we\u2019ve been attempting to simply acclimate to all the moisture Western Oregon receives \u2013 so far it\u2019s rained, snowed, or hailed every day we\u2019ve been in the field, though we\u2019re told in a few short weeks the green hillsides will all dry up and we\u2019ll begin to battle the summer heat.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re collecting thousands of native seeds for the Seeds of Success program, so most of our days are spent learning the long list of target species and scouring the district for populations large enough to collect from. Roseburg had a long, wet winter, so many of our target species have yet to bloom. All this moisture gives us hope for a good seed crop though, so we\u2019re patiently waiting for the rain to stop to finally begin our true task for the summer.<\/p>\n

Despite not being able to begin our collections, we\u2019ve managed to stay very busy for the past month. We\u2019ve explored much of the Roseburg District, attempting to learn the immense network of active logging roads that we\u2019re still learning to navigate safely, avoid the treacherous and tenacious poison oak that covers much of the landscape, and quickly learn to identify many species we\u2019ve never before seen. So far, the most important thing we\u2019ve learned since we began our internship in Oregon is how much work and dedication goes into seed collection. We\u2019re the first Seeds of Success collection team at this BLM office, so most of our time has been spent simply hiking in the woods, learning to use a mobile GPS device, and hunting for wildflowers. Once we\u2019ve located populations that are appropriate to collect from, we hope to provide the basis for collections for years in the future, aiding in both restoration and research.<\/p>\n

Liz Thompson and John Boornazian, Jr.
\nRoseburg, Oregon
\nBLM<\/p>\n

\"Beatty

Beatty Creek Research Natural Area, jointly managed by the USFS and BLM, and one of our favorite collection sites<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Calochortus

Calochortus tolmeii, one of the only target species to bloom so far!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/dt>\n<\/div>\n

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A Columbia white-tailed deer fawn, a federally threatened species, that we discovered while looking for target species populations<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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