{"id":62798,"date":"2015-06-23T12:09:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=62798"},"modified":"2015-06-23T12:09:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:09:38","slug":"botanizing-in-vernal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=62798","title":{"rendered":"Botanizing in Vernal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The small town of Vernal has been growing on me. \u00a0The scattered oil and gas well pads amongst the beautiful high desert makes for an interesting landscape. \u00a0For a botanist, it is pretty awesome. \u00a0We have been spending most days scouting for plant populations looking for candidates for collecting seeds, vouchering, and of course getting lost trying to navigate the never-ending umarked roads&#8230;.perfecting our map reading and GPS skills. \u00a0The afternoon rains have been promoting new plant growth as well as giving us some much needed 4-wheel drive time \ud83d\ude42 We are targeting over 30 plants for the SOS collection this summer and so far we have found populations for about 3\/4 of those and have made a few seed collections. \u00a0Making progress&#8230;&#8230;slowly!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62802\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Me-and-Jinny-Botanizing.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62802\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62802\" alt=\"Jinny and I vouchering Cryptantha barnebyi on the amazing white shale formation!\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Me-and-Jinny-Botanizing-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Me-and-Jinny-Botanizing-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Me-and-Jinny-Botanizing-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Me-and-Jinny-Botanizing-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Me-and-Jinny-Botanizing-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jinny and I vouchering <em>Cryptantha barnebyi<\/em> on the amazing white shale formation!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small town of Vernal has been growing on me. \u00a0The scattered oil and gas well pads amongst the beautiful high desert makes for an interesting landscape. \u00a0For a botanist, it is pretty awesome. \u00a0We have been spending most days &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=62798\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7034,"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\/62798"}],"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\/7034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63243,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62798\/revisions\/63243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}