{"id":55320,"date":"2014-05-23T13:48:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T20:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=55320"},"modified":"2014-05-23T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T20:48:57","slug":"week-one-finding-beauty-among-the-oil-and-gas-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=55320","title":{"rendered":"Week One: Finding Beauty Among the Oil and Gas Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/141-LOFO-A3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-55321\" alt=\"Lomatium foeniculaceum\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/141-LOFO-A3-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/141-LOFO-A3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/141-LOFO-A3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/141-LOFO-A3-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/141-LOFO-A3-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just getting to Rawlins was its own adventure. A spring storm closed all roads in the area during the weekend I began my move. I just finished an internship with the Student Conservation Association in Eastern California and only had the weekend to make the drive to Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>Stuck an extra day and a half outside of Salt Lake City, at least I can say I got to explore some beautiful mountains while I waited for the roads to open (Midland-Heber City area). \u00a0It was also nice to have a chance to see my mom. She very kindly drove from Oregon to meet me for a quick visit.<\/p>\n<p>Rawlins isn&#8217;t quite what I remember from a road-trip that took me along I-80 last fall, but despite the oil and gas industry in our district, we&#8217;ve already been out to some beautiful areas beyond the oil fields in this part of South-Central Wyoming. In just over a week and a half, the other CLM Intern and I have identified numerous plant populations to watch in the coming weeks for collection, collected a few voucher specimens, assisted on raptor surveys, and (most importantly for my sanity as a true lover of trees and riparian systems) found some lovely, high alpine forests and followed the course of the Platt River to some potential collection sites.<\/p>\n<p>BLM Field Office<\/p>\n<p>Rawlins, WY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just getting to Rawlins was its own adventure. A spring storm closed all roads in the area during the weekend I began my move. I just finished an internship with the Student Conservation Association in Eastern California and only had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=55320\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5997,"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\/55320"}],"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\/5997"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55340,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55320\/revisions\/55340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}