{"id":31126,"date":"2013-07-15T11:02:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T18:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=31126"},"modified":"2013-07-15T11:02:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T18:02:46","slug":"the-5-month-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=31126","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Month Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">It\u2019s hard to believe 5 months have already passed by.\u00a0\u00a0If you had asked me one year ago where I would be now, I probably would not have said somewhere skirting the Sierra Nevada, with Lake Tahoe for a weekend playground.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Working for the BLM has been a lesson in patience, planning and back-up planning.\u00a0\u00a0Having been here for several months, I feel like I am finally getting my feet under me.\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t think I have ever appreciated the value of over preparation, until this position.\u00a0\u00a0The mantra: plan on plans changing.\u00a0\u00a0A trip to the field means plan for anything: GPS units failing, radios dying, people getting lost, extreme heat followed by extreme cold, or you may get reassigned to a new project entirely.\u00a0\u00a0This type of uncertainty requires flexibility.\u00a0\u00a0Being flexible means being versatile and with the vast amounts of land our district office oversees being able to change plans quickly means accomplishing more.\u00a0\u00a0For instance, several weeks ago we drove to an HAF, sage grouse habitat site that was roughly 3 hours away.\u00a0\u00a0After arriving\u00a0at the site and spending a few hours looking for the pre-established transect plot we had found nothing.\u00a0\u00a0At that point the day could have felt like a failure.\u00a0Luckily we were aware of a rare plant population in the area that required a distribution survey.\u00a0\u00a0Our team was able to quickly transition from one task to another without wasting our trip to such a remote site.\u00a0\u00a0This situation also underscores the value of being familiar with the land uses and interests of the office you work in.\u00a0\u00a0Often times the surveys we conduct apply to multiple disciplines in our office and knowing this allows you to plan well for appropriate data collection and management.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to believe 5 months have already passed by.\u00a0\u00a0If you had asked me one year ago where I would be now, I probably would not have said somewhere skirting the Sierra Nevada, with Lake Tahoe for a weekend playground.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=31126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1790,"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\/31126"}],"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\/1790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31126"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31198,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31126\/revisions\/31198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}