{"id":38999,"date":"2013-10-09T07:47:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T14:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=38999"},"modified":"2013-10-09T07:48:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T14:48:36","slug":"the-titles-the-hardest-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=38999","title":{"rendered":"The title’s the hardest part!"},"content":{"rendered":"

9-23-13<\/p>\n

Hello! And greetings from beautiful Montrose, CO. It’s a crisp, fall afternoon here and I’ve spent the day in the office working on various projects as we wait for the adobe hills to dry out from the approximately 2 inches of rain they received yesterday, the official first day of fall. Luckily, my last two days of summer couldn’t have been better – two days of bliss floating down the Gunnison River with a bestie from college.<\/p>\n

I’d also just like to take a moment to point out that I absolutely love everyone’s posts. I’m sorry I don’t comment more (i.e. at all) but I really do read the blog and I love finding out about what everyone is doing and looking at everyone’s pictures.<\/p>\n

Now I’d like to talk about the wildlife life count for the summer. I’ve seen:<\/p>\n

– a little baby kestral (a.k.a. a fledgling – not really a baby)
\n– a mama black bear and her three little baby cubs (so cute!)
\n– a bobcat that had just caught a rodent of some sort
\n– and numerous deer, elk, and pronghorns<\/p>\n

\"Lady<\/a>

A heard of Lady Elk checking my mentor and I out in Burn Canyon.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ram\"<\/a>

Handsome ram snacking on corn in Escalante Canyon.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Little<\/a>

Little Bull Snake Buddy<\/p><\/div>\n

While most of my work revolves around rare plant surveys, I’ve also gotten to do a fair amount of work relating to wildlife. For instance, I recently got to head up a gnarly road on a UTV to get back to a small creek up on the Grand Mesa. There we did electrofishing with the idea of doing genetic testing on what we believe is a population of Cutthroats. I’ve also gotten to go out with Jedd, the Hydrologist, to do some macroinvertebrate inventory which has been very pleasent – just beautiful days out playing around in the river.<\/p>\n

\"Cutthroat\"<\/a>

Possible Cutthroat – waiting on the genetic testing!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Weighing<\/a>

My mentor Ken being crafty and rigging a way to weigh fish!<\/p><\/div>\n

And of course I’ve been doing plant stuff! The CLMer’s from Denver have come out twice now to help out with Colorado Hookless cactus monitoring and Clay-lovin’ Wild Buckwheat monitoring. I really enjoyed working with Carol (CO BLM State Botanist) and her CLM crew – you guys are awesome!<\/p>\n

\"CLM<\/a>

CLM CO Crew! Nathan, Darnisha, Katie, and me after completing a long week of cactus monitoring.<\/p><\/div>\n

Carol also recently helped Ken and I out with ID’ing some pretty cool plants that we were struggling with (thanks Carol!!).<\/p>\n

\"Proboscidea<\/a>

Crazy plant I found in the adobe’s – Proboscidea louisianica<\/em>. In the Martyniaceae family a.k.a. the Unicorn Plant family!<\/p><\/div>\n

Anyway, now we’re working on Land Health Assessment’s (woohoo – more transects!) and I’m getting busy on all the data entry from my Sage Grouse Habitat Assessment Framework from way back in May. Well, I’m signing off!<\/p>\n

Brandee Wills
\nUncompahgre Field Office – BLM
\nMontrose, CO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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