{"id":57672,"date":"2014-08-11T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=57672"},"modified":"2014-08-11T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T15:00:17","slug":"big-bear-lake-july-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=57672","title":{"rendered":"Big Bear Lake July-August"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Woodland<\/a>

Woodland pinedrops (Pterospora andromedea<\/em>), in flower in mid-July<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ash-gray<\/a>

Ash-gray Indian paintbrush (Castilleja cinerea<\/em>), federally threatened<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u2019ve been surveying in the Santa Ana River Valley and along Sugarloaf Ridge, which is north of the valley.\u00a0 Sugarloaf Mountain and the surrounding ridges contain extensive pebble plain habitat.<\/span>\u00a0 These open areas of clay soils are extremely harsh environments and are home to some unique plant species.<\/span>\u00a0 Rare species of the pebble plains include ash-gray Indian paintbrush (<\/span>Castilleja cinerea<\/i>, federally threatened), southern mountain buckwheat <\/span>\u00a0(<\/span>Eriogonum kennedyi <\/i>var. <\/span>austromontanum, <\/i>federally threatened), Bear Valley sandwort (<\/span>Eremogone ursina<\/i>), and Parish\u2019s rockcress (<\/span>Boechera parishii<\/i>, sensitive), among others.<\/span>\u00a0 As part of the same project, I\u2019ve been working down in Barton Flats.<\/span>\u00a0 Barton Flats horkelia (<\/span>Horkelia wilderae<\/i>) is a species endemic to this area of the Santa Ana River Valley, where it grows in montane conifer and oak woodland, often in openings or partial sun.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

On August 31, we conducted night surveys for arroyo toad upstream of the Mojave Spillway.\u00a0 Arroyo toads are endemic to southwestern CA and northern Baja, and inhabit perennial streams.<\/span>\u00a0 These nocturnal toads forage for insects at night and burrow themselves in sand during the day.<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0This lower part of Deep Creek is heavily used, and beaver, trout, and bullfrogs also occur in the stream.<\/span>\u00a0 All of these\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>impact arroyo toad populations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Interesting (plant) finds from last month include new populations of white adder\u2019s-mouth orchid (Malaxis monophyllos <\/i>var. <\/span>brachypoda<\/i>)<\/span> <\/i>in two different meadows on the forest, and a new location of <\/span>Botrychium crenulatum<\/i>, also in a meadow.<\/span>\u00a0 White adder\u2019s-mouth orchid has an interesting distribution in North America; it\u2019s primarily found in the Midwest and Canada, where it grows in swamp forests.<\/span>\u00a0 The only records in California are from the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains.<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mountaintop Ranger District<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

San Bernardino National Forest\/USFS<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been surveying in the Santa Ana River Valley and along Sugarloaf Ridge, which is north of the valley.\u00a0 Sugarloaf Mountain and the surrounding ridges contain extensive pebble plain habitat.\u00a0 These open areas of clay soils are extremely harsh environments … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5827,"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\/57672"}],"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\/5827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57697,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57672\/revisions\/57697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}