{"id":59372,"date":"2014-10-13T12:07:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=59372"},"modified":"2014-10-13T12:07:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:07:16","slug":"san-bernardino-national-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=59372","title":{"rendered":"San Bernardino National Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Parry’s alpinegold (Hulsea vestita parryi<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n

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A late-blooming San Bernardino Mountains bladderpod (Physaria kingii subsp bernardina<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rock loving oxytrope (Oxytropis oreophila var. oreophila<\/em>). This species occurs in AZ and UT, but in California it’s known only from high elevations in the San Bernardinos. This picture was taken at a new population in southern California.<\/p><\/div>\n

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In my last blog post, I mentioned a potential new location of fringed chocolate chip lichen, Solorina spongiosa<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span>, which is rare in California.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Kerry Knudsen, a lichenologist and curator of the lichen herbarium at University of California Riverside, verified the specimen in September.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>This is a new record of the species in the San Bernardino Mountains; the other known locations are in the Sierras.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been continuing to monitor populations of T&E in areas around the Mountaintop Ranger District, and especially focusing on older occurrences.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>San Bernardino Mountains bladderpod (<\/span>Physaria kingii <\/span><\/i>subsp. <\/span>bernardina<\/span><\/i>, pictured) is one species that I\u2019ve been monitoring; it is federally endanged and grows on carbonate slopes around Bear Valley.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>In mid-September, I spent a few days working with the Urban Conservation Corps in the Bighorn Mountains Wilderness; we surveyed the wilderness for recreation impacts and removed weeds.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The Bighorn Mountains Wilderness is a little-used and little-known wilderness, but it\u2019s one of my favorites.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The view over the desert from the relatively inaccessible Granite Peaks is amazing.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Many of our plant species endemic to carbonate soils occur in areas of this Wilderness. <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

  In my last blog post, I mentioned a potential new location of fringed chocolate chip lichen, Solorina spongiosa, which is rare in California.\u00a0 Kerry Knudsen, a lichenologist and curator of the lichen herbarium at University of California Riverside, verified … 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\/59372"}],"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=59372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59394,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59372\/revisions\/59394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}