{"id":59839,"date":"2014-11-07T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=59839"},"modified":"2014-11-07T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:13:08","slug":"scouting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=59839","title":{"rendered":"Scouting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59841\" style=\"border-color: #bbbbbb; background: #eeeeee;\" alt=\"_DSC0088\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC0088-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC0088-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC0088-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC0088-680x1024.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><br \/>\nDespite the cold and the shortened days here in New Mexico, I\u2019ve managed to get out to the field a couple times to do some scouting for next field season. I ventured out with a range tech and a wildlife biologist to the far eastern part of the district to a solitary 40 acre parcel of BLM in a sea of private land, called Turkey Canyon. The entire parcel was nearly pristine, and we saw signs of cougar, bear, elk and mule deer. The entire area showed great promise for seed collection next fall with <em>Bouteloua gracilis<\/em>, <em>Bouteloua hirsuta<\/em>, and <em>Lycurus phleoides<\/em> to name a few.There\u2019s a lot of history on the land.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59842\" style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24.375px;\" alt=\"_DSC0085\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC0085-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC0085-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC0085-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC0085-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC0085-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It was once a pre-historic sea, and then three-toed dinosaurs traversed the land, as evidenced in Clayton Lake State Park. We made a side trip to see the dinosaur\u00a0tracks at the park. The town of Clayton\u00a0(30 miles south of Turkey Canyon) is home to the New Mexico\u2019s only lynching in the Clayton\u2019s history\u00a0(for good reason), which was a debacle\u00a0apparently. I won\u2019t go into detail, but I recommend reading about it. Let\u2019s just say, that the waitress from\u00a0our lunch in town told us to never rob a train in Clayton.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59840\" style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24.375px;\" alt=\"_DSC0158\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC0158-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC0158-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC0158-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC0158-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC0158-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the cold and the shortened days here in New Mexico, I\u2019ve managed to get out to the field a couple times to do some scouting for next field season. I ventured out with a range tech and a wildlife &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=59839\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6106,"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\/59839"}],"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\/6106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59867,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59839\/revisions\/59867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}