Greetings from Wyoming!<\/p>\n
I have been here in Laramie a little over a week, and after unpacking (mostly) and watching the first of many summer hailstorms on the Laramie Plain, I am finally settling in.\u00a0 The transition has been a whirlwind: in two weeks I packed and moved from my New Mexico archaeology gig to botanizing in southeast Wyoming.\u00a0 I just missed the training in Chicago, and after a few days in the field, I took up the leadership role for the SOS team.\u00a0 Won\u2019t say that I never missed a beat (still missing them\u2014if you find them, let me know), but I couldn\u2019t be more pleased.\u00a0 Laramie is a solid western community with college town flair, and as for the landscape, it was love at first sight.\u00a0 Of course, reliable sources tell me that July is Wyoming\u2019s one pleasant month of the year.\u00a0 I\u2019ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n
This internship\u2019s primary goal is getting seed collections for the Seeds of Success program.\u00a0 This means that my job is to hike, camp, and look at plants all summer\u2014so what am I supposed to do for fun?!\u00a0 Write blogs, I suppose, and maybe catch some live music in the park for the Fourth of July.\u00a0 So far we\u2019ve been scouting and collecting on the Laramie Plains, down to the grasslands of northern Colorado, up to the Powder River Basin, and high up the Snowy Range today for a change of pace.\u00a0 The wildflower display is fantastic, and sometimes it\u2019s hard to remember it\u2019s the seeds we want.\u00a0 Right, seeds.\u00a0 Less pretty, more useful.<\/p>\n
Still learning, and hopefully will get better as time goes on.\u00a0 You can be jealous now, or just enjoy your own CLM experiences. \u00a0Happy summer!<\/p>\n
Cheers, Abby D.<\/p>\n\n\t\t