{"id":59878,"date":"2014-11-10T08:54:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=59878"},"modified":"2014-11-10T08:54:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:54:58","slug":"big-bear-lake-october-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=59878","title":{"rendered":"Big Bear Lake, October-November"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A view of the San Bernardino Mountains, north from the lower slopes of the San Jacintos<\/p><\/div>\n

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Aphids on a pod of climbing milkweed (Funastrum cynanchoides hartwegii<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n

My field season wound down in mid-October, although many of our threatened, endangered, and sensitive plants are still detectable.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>We got the first winter storm of the season on Halloween night; mostly rain, but a bit of snow and sleet at higher elevations.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The photos in this post are from a (personal) backpacking trip I took down to the San Jacinto Mountains in mid-October.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from the village of Snow Creek.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>This section of trail has gorgeous views of the steep, forbidding north face of San Jacinto Mountain and is also an interesting passage through different vegetation types.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The trail begins on the desert floor, dominated by creosote bush (<\/span>Larrea tridentata<\/span><\/i>)\u00a0<\/span><\/i>and brittlebush (<\/span>Encelia <\/span><\/i>sp.), and winds up into\u00a0montane conifer woodland (with white fir, Jeffrey pine, and <\/span>Quercus <\/span><\/i>species).<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

I have been doing a lot of database work, entering the season\u2019s finds into the Forest Service database.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Last week I helped our Restoration crew plant at one of our restoration sites.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019ve also been spending time in the herbarium, processing collections from this season and seasons past.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The herbarium work has turned up some interesting collections from this field season, including an intriguing <\/span>Nama <\/span><\/i>species (more later, if it turns out to be something good).<\/span><\/p>\n

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

San Bernardino National Forest<\/span><\/p>\n

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