Summer ended with a bang here in Vernal, and across the rest of Utah as well.\u00a0 The official first day of fall coincided with a massive cold front that brought torrential downpours, high winds, and even a few tornadoes across the entire state.\u00a0 It started snowing again in the Uintas.\u00a0 That trend will probably continue until the peaks are buried deep under 4 feet of snow.\u00a0 That was something I learned firsthand in May about 2 weeks after I got here, when I tried to climb Marsh Peak and ended up fighting through waist deep snow for hours with nothing to show for it.<\/p>\n
We are still in limbo over most of our collections.\u00a0 We have our eyes on two different eriogonum<\/em> species that will probably be collected soon, but we are worried that most of our remaining collections won’t be ready until after we leave.\u00a0 The Sarcobatus vermiculatus<\/em> seems to be coming along well and will probably be caught, but Most of the artemisia<\/em> species are still barely flowering.\u00a0 The only way we could get those is if me or Hannah extends into November.\u00a0 That’s a possibility but not likely.\u00a0 I’m waiting to hear back for a job that starts in November and Hannah has her own plans.\u00a0 I guess we will have to count on next years interns to get those collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summer ended with a bang here in Vernal, and across the rest of Utah as well.\u00a0 The official first day of fall coincided with a massive cold front that brought torrential downpours, high winds, and even a few tornadoes across … Continue reading