{"id":29704,"date":"2013-06-12T11:25:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T18:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=29704"},"modified":"2013-06-12T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T18:25:38","slug":"spring-is-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=29704","title":{"rendered":"Spring is in bloom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?attachment_id=29705\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29705\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29705\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1030346-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1030346-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1030346-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1030346-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1030346-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bishop field office for the BLM covers a lot of ground, from\u00a0 Owens Lake in the South all the way to the Nevada border near Bridgeport. Three-quarters of a million acres of habitats ranging from true desert to sagebrush steppe, alkali flats, wetlands and windswept mountains. While tracking down sage grouse nests and populations of seed-bearing plants I\u2019ve come to appreciate all that our region has to offer, but my favorite habitat at the moment has to be low-sage scrub. <em>Artemisia arbuscula<\/em> is not a particularly showy plant, its grey-green limbs barely rising above the baked clay soils it prefers. Male sage-grouse prefer it for their leks, since females can watch them prance about unobstructed. \u00a0The reason I like low sagebrush however, is that our small islands of <em>A.<\/em> <em>arbuscula<\/em> seem to contain the vast majority of flowers in our field office. Even in this especially dry year, hardy perennials like Biterroot and <em>Crepis<\/em> species are turning the barren expanses of clay bright shades of yellow and magenta with their blossoms. Coincidentally, these are some of the same species that I need to collect seed from, so I get to soak in the display as I look for mature seedheads.<a href=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?attachment_id=29706\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29706\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29706\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1030158-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1030158-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1030158-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1030158-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1030158-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On that note, 10,000 seeds is a lot of seeds! I recently finished my first collection, the not-as-showy but still lovable <em>Lomatium nevadense. <\/em>Even with 20-100 seeds per plant, it still took a lot of searching with my head down to pick enough for a collection.<em> <\/em>Worth it though, since according to our wildlife biologist <em>L. nevadense<\/em> is a favorite snack for the sage grouse. \u00a0I know that if I spent my mornings jumping to and fro with huge yellow sacks on my chest, I would want a snack as well so I\u2019m glad that we now have this seed to potentially use for revegetation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop field office for the BLM covers a lot of ground, from\u00a0 Owens Lake in the South all the way to the Nevada border near Bridgeport. Three-quarters of a million acres of habitats ranging from true desert to sagebrush &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=29704\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"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\/29704"}],"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\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29704"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29784,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704\/revisions\/29784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}