{"id":55063,"date":"2014-05-12T11:58:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=55063"},"modified":"2014-05-12T11:58:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:58:34","slug":"april-in-the-great-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=55063","title":{"rendered":"April in the Great Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_55064\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Monkey-flower1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55064\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55064\" alt=\"Erythranthe carsonensis\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Monkey-flower1-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Monkey-flower1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Monkey-flower1.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Erythranthe carsonensis<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an eventful month for the team and I here in Carson City, NV.\u00a0 We began the month by traveling to Boise, ID for pesticide certification. It was basically like taking a\u00a0super condensed\u00a0college course, then having several finals at the end of the week.\u00a0It was a challenge, but the whole team passed the general pesticide exam,\u00a0as well as\u00a0all of the category exams. We are straight up pesticide certified, so don&#8217;t mess with us!\u00a0 We also did a couple of outreach events. We helped organize the Truckee River Environmental Education event on Earth Day.\u00a0We\u00a0took the kids on a botany safari and organized a game that taught the kids about noxious weeds. We also had a BLM booth at Earth Day in Reno, which a lot of\u00a0families enjoyed.\u00a0\u00a0Our booth had free posters, tattoos, homemade plant pressed book marks, as well as a couple games which included ecosystem jenga (super fun!) and the trash game, where the players had to guess how long it took certain everyday trash items to degrade.\u00a0 Reno Earth Day was pretty neat, I got a chance to walk around a little bit and check out the vendors, food, and live music.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite project we have been working on this month is rare plant monitoring.\u00a0 We have been surveying for both <em>Ivesia webberi<\/em> and <em>Erythranthe carsonesis<\/em>.\u00a0 We have successfully mapped several polygons of the <em>Ivesei<\/em>, and have been attempting to survey elsewhere for the plant. It&#8217;s been kind of a treasure hunt! We\u00a0only\u00a0spent a day surveying for the <em>Erythranthe carsonesis<\/em>, but it is a very unique looking plant, characterized by a yellow flower with\u00a0a tiny red dot.\u00a0We did find a few very small populations, a couple of them only have two or three individuals. Many plants are in bloom right now, so I expect lots of seed collecting on the horizon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an eventful month for the team and I here in Carson City, NV.\u00a0 We began the month by traveling to Boise, ID for pesticide certification. 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