{"id":1885,"date":"2010-06-16T19:35:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T02:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2010-06-16T19:35:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T02:35:29","slug":"maps-and-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"Maps and Models"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m standing on a wind-blown bluff overlooking a mountainous ocean coastline, hip-high grasses brushing against me in the light afternoon breeze.\u00a0 Backpack on my back, a similarly-clad office-mate is standing on my left, likewise looking off into the impressive landscape.\u00a0 \u201cTwo hikers lost amid nature\u2019s wonders\u201d\u2014<\/em> it\u2019s the type of scene you\u2019d see on wilderness maps or on landscape posters.<\/p>\n

Actually, it is one of those scenes.\u00a0 A hundred yards behind us and up on a higher hill is a BLM photographer, capturing the moment for use in future King Range promotional materials.\u00a0 It\u2019s the second day of this unexpected tangent in my CLM internship\u2014Zach Marine, landscape model.\u00a0 \u201cI move to California and just fell into a modeling gig<\/em>,\u201d I\u2019d jokingly explained to my parents.\u00a0 Still, it\u2019s hard for me not to be awestruck by the fortune I had to not only hike a beautiful trail (the Lost Coast Trail) and camp overnight while being photographed doing it, but to do all this while getting paid<\/em>.\u00a0 This is part of my job!\u00a0 Maybe I should look into this modeling thing more seriously….<\/p>\n

\"Lost

Hiking, not modeling<\/p><\/div>\n

Cut to three weeks later.\u00a0 I\u2019m in the office working on my computer and our NEPA planner comes up and hands me the draft version of the King Range Wilderness Plan.\u00a0 On the cover is a familiar coastline vista with the backs of two every-man hikers in the foreground.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s me!\u201d<\/em> I say.\u00a0 Then the even cooler part sinks in\u2014as I look through the document I see all the maps I made, 13 in all.\u00a0 As amazing as the opportunity was to model for the BLM (I never thought I\u2019d be writing *that* clause), the real serendipity happened a month earlier when there was a significant need for someone to produce the maps for this wilderness plan which was running desperately close to its deadline\u2026 and the GIS specialist was out of the office for the next three weeks.<\/p>\n

For me, who had wanted to learn more about GIS and gain applied experience with it, it was the perfect opportunity.\u00a0 Now seeing those maps in the draft plan brought home how cool the whole experience had been.\u00a0 I had learned something I had wanted to, I had helped the office fill a need they had, and I had produced something that will be of benefit to the public as they evaluate the wilderness plan or put it into effect.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t be more delighted.<\/p>\n

Plus I was on the front cover (or at least my back was), and that was pretty cool, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m standing on a wind-blown bluff overlooking a mountainous ocean coastline, hip-high grasses brushing against me in the light afternoon breeze.\u00a0 Backpack on my back, a similarly-clad office-mate is standing on my left, likewise looking off into the impressive landscape.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}