{"id":33711,"date":"2013-09-06T12:35:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T19:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=33711"},"modified":"2013-09-06T12:35:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T19:35:44","slug":"vernal-july-blog-just-a-little-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=33711","title":{"rendered":"Vernal (July blog just a little late…)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the CLM workshop in Chicago, Jess and I have been quite busy!\u00a0 Unfortunately during Chicago we lost a few of the populations which we had previously scouted out; the Hesperostipa comata<\/em> and the Grayia spinosa<\/em> had already matured and lost their seeds.\u00a0 We have collected from 10 different populations so far.\u00a0 We were skeptical at first about our ability to collect 10,000 seeds per population, but we have not had an issue.\u00a0 We did an estimate on the number of seeds we collected for Cleome lutea<\/em> using the weight of 100-500 seeds and then using the total collection weight; we estimated that we collected around 75,000 seeds.\u00a0 We also did the weight estimate with our population of Eriogonum alatum<\/em> which we only spent about 30 minutes collecting and each fruit only has one seed.\u00a0 Amazingly, after that amount of time we estimated that we had already collected 4,500 seeds!<\/p>\n

At first we were uncertain about the best method, but we quickly learned as we collected Acnatherum hymenoides<\/em>. We thought the best method was to cut off the infructescence. However, by doing this we had to do a lot of manual cleaning by hand before sending the seeds off to Bend, OR.\u00a0 Other interns informed us that stripping the seeds right away worked a lot better and resulted in little to no chaff, so we made sure to do this as best as we could for our other collections.<\/p>\n

While most of our time since Chicago has been spent locating populations and collecting seeds, we have been able to do a couple other things to diversify our experience.\u00a0 We went out with our herbicide guy and learned about a few of the different invasive species in our area.\u00a0 We marked the plants for him so he was able to treat that area.\u00a0 We also were trained on the methods of how to assess PFC (proper functioning condition) on streams.\u00a0 Finally, we spent a week working with SWCA, an environmental consulting group, monitoring plots of Sclerocactus wetlandicus <\/em>and S. brevispinus<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It has been a full month with lots of learning and adventures \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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