{"id":55541,"date":"2014-06-11T12:40:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T19:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=55541"},"modified":"2014-06-11T12:40:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T19:40:43","slug":"is-it-summer-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=55541","title":{"rendered":"Is it summer yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s almost June! The past month has gone by so quickly. It\u2019s like they say, time flies when you\u2019re having fun. And I\u2019ve been having a lot of fun in the field!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been going out into the field every day, which is awesome. I don\u2019t mind doing office work and helping the range specialists with their Rangeland Health Assessments, but being in the office for ten hours straight is torture for this nature lover.<\/p>\n

The biggest change in the past month is that I have a work partner, Kyle. He isn\u2019t a CLM intern, just a range tech, but we\u2019ll be doing the same work.\u00a0 After being on my own for so long it was weird to go into the field with someone, but it\u2019s been fun to train Kyle. Once he feels more comfortable doing utilization studies we\u2019ll go into the field on our own, but team up when we have long-term trend plots to monitor.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been working on learning to identify the many forbes we have in southeastern Oregon. It helps that one of my house-mates, a fellow CLM intern, is working with the botanist here. So whenever I have trouble with a plant I can go to her for help. My list of plants that I can identify is steadily increasing. It\u2019s so fun to go for a hike and be able to identify most of the plants that I come across!<\/p>\n

Highlights from the past month: being given more responsibilities at work, learning to identify lots of wildflowers, spending the day with a range specialist and learning more from her in that one day than I have since I started working here.<\/p>\n

Allyson Schaeffer<\/p>\n

BLM, Lakeview, Oregon<\/p>\n

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Tufted evening primrose.<\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s almost June! The past month has gone by so quickly. It\u2019s like they say, time flies when you\u2019re having fun. And I\u2019ve been having a lot of fun in the field! I\u2019ve been going out into … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5956,"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\/55541"}],"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\/5956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55754,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55541\/revisions\/55754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}