{"id":5759,"date":"2011-07-25T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T18:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5759"},"modified":"2011-07-25T11:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T18:30:34","slug":"the-right-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=5759","title":{"rendered":"The Right Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A little over\u00a0a month and a half ago, I loaded up my little Saturn to the roof and began my two day, 19 hour trek from my home in Missouri to my new home in Southwestern Utah. I will admit, I was scared out of my mind. The furthest <\/a>west I had ever been was\u00a0Kansas and I wasn’t sure what to expect living alone, 1300 miles from everything I’ve\u00a0known for 22 years.\u00a0Despite my initial uncertainty and fear, the move ( and internship) have changed my life both professionally and personally in ways I never thought possible. Since I’ve been here, I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to work with both western plants and animals. The projects that I am currently working on include assessing vegetation plots,\u00a0using telemetry to track\u00a0our local\u00a0Greater Sage Grouse population and conducting fenceline surveys.<\/p>\n

My most memorable experience thus far?\u00a0 Tracking and flushing my first Sage Grouse.\u00a0 I had never even seen a Sage Grouse and had\u00a0 no idea what I was getting myself into. It was a female and I spent about 30 minutes triangulating her position. I was completely estatic when the graduate student I was working with informed me that we were close enough that I could hop out of the truck and follow my female on foot. I wiggled and twisted my way up a hill scattered with sage brush, intently focused on the steady beeping coming from my telemetry set, letting me know I was closing in. Suddenly and unexpectedly\u00a0she flushed about\u00a0four feet in front of me, literally almost scaring me to death.\u00a0The loud noise of\u00a0her beating\u00a0wings made me jump so bad that I scared\u00a0the graduate student who was another ten feet behind me.\u00a0I had done\u00a0it!\u00a0It was such a rewarding experience. I turned to the graduate student with the biggest smile on my face and she smiled back saying,\u00a0”\u00a0Congrats, you just\u00a0tracked and\u00a0flushed your first bird.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0feelings and experiences I’ve been blessed with are ones I will never forget\u00a0and\u00a0though I wouldn’t have guessed\u00a0it\u00a0two months ago,\u00a0Southwestern Utah is exactly the place I want to be.<\/p>\n

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