{"id":71912,"date":"2016-08-29T13:57:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T20:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=71912"},"modified":"2016-08-29T13:57:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T20:57:53","slug":"rein-orchids-and-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=71912","title":{"rendered":"Rein Orchids and Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few weeks I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time working a restoration site located in the coastal grasslands of Fort Ord. After filling in\u00a0a gully that was threatening to damage a nearby road, BLM planted a few thousand native plants in order to populate\u00a0the barren earth and prevent future erosion. I have been monitoring the survivorship of those plants, as well as watering them by means of a large water tank truck and a few hundred feet of hose. I often work alone amid dense morning fog, which burns off to\u00a0spacious afternoon\u00a0views, with mice, mantises, beetles, grasshoppers, vultures, hawks, spiders, and plants for company.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71918\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71918\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-71918 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0649-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0649\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-71918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pillarcitos restoration site and water tank truck<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_71926\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71926\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-71926 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0900-1-e1471726299972-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0900\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0900-1-e1471726299972-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0900-1-e1471726299972-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0900-1-e1471726299972.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-71926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friendly mantis<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_71929\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71929\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71929\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0896-e1471726700120-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Black widow inhabiting one of the plant basins\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-71929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black widow inhabiting one of the watering\u00a0basins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile there has been a huge wildfire raging in northern Big Sur, 30ish south miles from Fort Ord. Luckily the prevailing winds are NW, but there has been some lingering haze and smoke\u00a0smell\u00a0in the area, as well as a few days of\u00a0ash fall. One day however I accompanied our recreation manager to BLM campsites in the valleys inland from the fire, and fire&#8217;s effect there\u00a0was surreal. Everything was enveloped\u00a0in a yellow-sepia haze, which when coupled with the hot, barren oil field\u00a0landscape\u00a0created the\u00a0atmosphere of a zombie apocalypse.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71920\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71920\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71920\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0657-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke plumes visible from Fort Ord\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-71920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huge smoke plumes visible from Fort Ord<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More recently I accompanied a longtime volunteer who conducts vegetation inventories across Fort Ord. We looked for elegant rein orchids in the coastal dunes, and ended up finding twelve individuals. It was incredibly refreshing to work in the smell and view of the clean, windless morning ocean, and trampling across the mats\u00a0of invasive ice plant in search of scattered natives was fun too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71914\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71914\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-71914 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_0882-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0882\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-71914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elegant rein orchids amid ice plant<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sean Pagnon, BLM Fort Ord National Monument, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few weeks I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time working a restoration site located in the coastal grasslands of Fort Ord. 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