{"id":18918,"date":"2012-09-07T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T16:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=18918"},"modified":"2012-09-07T09:14:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T16:14:24","slug":"wild-wild-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=18918","title":{"rendered":"Wild Wild West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, August really flew by. \u00a0This was a really great month; I am loving my job and really enjoying my time out here.\u00a0 Earlier this month I organized a solo project that involves going out to potential leasing sites for minerals and doing a brief vegetation and wildlife assessment then taking a photo and GPS point.\u00a0 At first, I wasn\u2019t too thrilled with the prospect, it sounded\u2026\u2026.uneventful.\u00a0 I was mistaken; I have gone to so many places in our field office\u2019s management area that I wouldn\u2019t have been to visit otherwise.\u00a0 I did field site visits from the western foothills of the Shoshoni forest to the eastern foothills of the Big Horn forest and all the wonderfully rugged sage scrub and badlands in-between.\u00a0\u00a0 I drove around on roads (I use the term loosely) that were so hazardous I was honestly surprised that my Ford Explorer could traverse them. I saw black bear, sage grouse, rattlesnakes, and a huge number of raptors.\u00a0 It has been a really unexpected treat.\u00a0 After that project ended, I moved back into bag\u2019n and tag\u2019n weeds and surveying.\u00a0 The most interesting area I surveyed this month was a creek-carved canyon that was on fire in early June. \u00a0Over a hundred foot tall walls with blackened earth and vegetation made for an awesome hike through.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also been helping construct a shade shelter \u00a0these last few days of August &#8212; hopefully I\u2019ll have some pictures of it to post next time.\u00a0 On a personal note, I climbed my first mountain peak (going for a 14er this weekend!), started to harvest fruit and veggies from my garden, went fly fishing for the first time and I\u2019m hooked (\u2026.I love puns\u2026.), had a birthday, and brewed my 3<sup>rd<\/sup> batch of beer (brown ale, pumpkin ale, and now a stout!). \u00a0I\u2019d say that it was a pretty successful month professionally and personally and I am really looking forward for the next one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Nate T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, August really flew by. \u00a0This was a really great month; I am loving my job and really enjoying my time out here.\u00a0 Earlier this month I organized a solo project that involves going out to potential leasing sites for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=18918\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1723,"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\/18918"}],"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\/1723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19119,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918\/revisions\/19119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}