{"id":32617,"date":"2013-08-20T11:25:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=32617"},"modified":"2013-08-20T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:25:47","slug":"its-the-final-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=32617","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the final countdown!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently writing to you all while I am happily on sipping on some pineapple coconut water in the cool weather of San Diego. Although it&#8217;s nice to have a mini vacation from the now &#8220;<em>cool&#8221;<\/em> climate in Phoenix (thank goodness for the monsoon season&#8230;), I will be more than happy to return to participating in another Desert Tortoise survey and helping conduct sensitive status species (SSS) plant searches forAgave murpheyi. Most recently, I was able to attend a presentation on mountain lions hosted by the Arizona Game and Fish Department. I was excited to learn that my mentor had taken part of the research study when it was first formed and had asked\u00a0numerous questions involving the how&#8217;s, why&#8217;s, and where&#8217;s of the research.<\/p>\n<p>I will be sad to say that we conducted our last Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo survey last week and I never did see one, however, my bird identification skills have definitely increased since the beginning of this internship! And now I only have 3 more weeks left&#8230;so that means I have to try and fill up my days with as much knowledge and skills as I possibly can since the end is so soon!! \ud83d\ude41 I can&#8217;t wait to update you all with what I have in store for my remaining weeks as CLM intern!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently writing to you all while I am happily on sipping on some pineapple coconut water in the cool weather of San Diego. Although it&#8217;s nice to have a mini vacation from the now &#8220;cool&#8221; climate in Phoenix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=32617\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1801,"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\/32617"}],"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\/1801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32617"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33123,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32617\/revisions\/33123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}