{"id":74,"date":"2009-08-21T08:43:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T15:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=74"},"modified":"2009-08-21T08:43:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T15:43:05","slug":"greetings-from-hollister-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from Hollister, California!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hey everyone!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I am so excited to have been able to be a part of such a great internship program! I&#8217;m doing things at my internship that I would&#8217;ve never dreamed I&#8217;d get a chance to do! I am working in Hollister, California in San Benito County since May 2009 with the Bureau of Land Management. I&#8217;m in the central coast\/central valley region of California, which puts me in proximity to San Jose, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco, which is very exciting and interesting! My office mainly manages two large areas: Panoche\/Tumey Hills and Clear Creek Management Area (CCMA). When I work in the Panoche\/Tumey Hills, I am usually getting the opportunity to survey for\u00a0fossilized materials, which usually\u00a0consists of Mosasaur or Hadrosaur bones, petrified wood, and conifer\u00a0needle and branch fossil\u00a0impressions. While working in Clear Creek Management Area, I am usually surveying populations of endemic plant species\u00a0on serpentine soil (such as Layia discoidea). My boss, Ryan O&#8217;Dell,\u00a0is the natural resources specialist (soil\/botany) in my office\u00a0and works closely with\u00a0serpentine soil restoration and ecology. The main project I have been working on during my internship is creating a paleontological data map (from past and present fossil material surveys) on ArcGIS. It has been a very rewarding experience to be able to work with ArcGIS. Overall, I am really enjoying my internship experience in Hollister, California with the BLM. I am really thankful for such a great program and the opportunity to work in areas I never imagined I&#8217;d ever be able to! Thanks!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-75\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/panoche.hills-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Panoche\/Tumey Hills\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Panoche\/Tumey Hills<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-76\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DSC00761-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hadrosaur dig\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DSC00761-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DSC00761-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DSC00761-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Hadrosaur excavation (fossil vertebrae shown)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-77\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/adbfbd3d22a04e729d60a5e749730854-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"Clear Creek Management Area\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/>Clear Creek Management Area (serpentine soil outcrop = the bluish stuff)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-78\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Spring09MISC_310-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Layia discoidea\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Layia discoidea (serpentine endemic species)<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Kelly Bougher<\/strong><br \/>\nBureau of Land Management<br \/>\nHollister Field Office &#8211; California<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone! I am so excited to have been able to be a part of such a great internship program! I&#8217;m doing things at my internship that I would&#8217;ve never dreamed I&#8217;d get a chance to do! 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