{"id":57430,"date":"2014-08-04T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=57430"},"modified":"2014-08-04T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T15:23:00","slug":"the-final-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=57430","title":{"rendered":"The final countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

I only have one more week here in lovely Lakeview. Kyle and I have been getting so much work done. For most of the summer we\u2019ve been doing work for just two of the range specialists (each range specialist is in charge of a certain number of allotments). We\u2019re almost done with everything we can do for them, which is quite impressive, if you look at the long list of work we started out with. It feels good to look back and see how much I have accomplished.<\/p>\n

There have been a few more frustrating days where we couldn\u2019t find our trend plots or got stuck in private land behind locked gates. One day I went out into the field by myself and went to a small allotment that is split up into two pastures, but the one I needed to be in doesn\u2019t have a road going through it. So I parked in the upper pasture and hiked up a hill then down the other side, crawled under a fence, and arrived in the lower pasture. Then I spent a few hours hiking around the pasture looking for the two trend plots there. I found one, by a lovely little stream, but couldn\u2019t find the second one. After hiking up a steep hill in 95 degree weather I was ready to give up.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite days of the past month was riding a horse for work! One of the range specialists, Lori, has two horses and has been wanting to use them for work. She got the paperwork filled out and we finally were able to take the horses out. All we did that day was ride to a certain point and see if there was water there (of course there wasn\u2019t, we\u2019re in a drought). I spent about 4 and 1\/2 hours in the saddle that day. It got pretty uncomfortable at the end, but overall I had a great time. Who else can say that they rode a horse for work?<\/p>\n

Another fun day was going out with Anna and Lucy, the two CLM botany interns that I live with. They took me to Sage Hen Butte, a place I\u2019d never been to before. They\u2019ve been collecting seeds for the Seeds of Success program, and that\u2019s what I helped them with that day. The plan was to try and collect cherry seeds and seeds from Oregon Sunshine, or Eriophyllum lanatum<\/em>. There weren\u2019t enough cherry trees to collect seeds, but we collected Oregon Sunshine and Gooseberry, Ribes sp. I enjoyed seeing what they do and all the work that goes into the SOS program.<\/p>\n

Highlights from the past month are: riding a horse for work, seeing my first rattlesnake of the summer, seeing a coyote pretty up close, and caving at Lava Beds National Monument with two of my roommates.<\/p>\n

Allyson Schaeffer
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