{"id":76100,"date":"2017-07-05T13:20:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=76100"},"modified":"2017-07-05T13:20:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:20:28","slug":"flowers-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=76100","title":{"rendered":"Flowers Everywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past couple weeks of work, my crew and I finished training (yay!!) and have begun our work in the field! Our main task is to use the AIM monitoring methods to gather baseline data for new monitoring points in our field office. Our data will be used to inform future land use plans, especially focusing on sage grouse habitat. Every day we get to visit a new place in our field office, and it seems we encounter a neat new plant everywhere we go! A couple of my favorites:\u00a0<em>Opuntia polyacantha<\/em> (plains prickly pear caci are flowering everywhere right now!) and\u00a0<em>Astragalus ceramicus\u00a0<\/em>(painted milkvetch, a fitting name for obvious reasons \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76102\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170620_124855-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170620_124855-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170620_124855-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170620_124855-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170620_124855-500x300.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76103\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170609_132620_268-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170609_132620_268-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170609_132620_268-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170609_132620_268-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170609_132620_268-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170609_132620_268.jpg 1932w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We took a week to attend the CLM workshop, where I not only enjoyed meeting all of you other interns, but loved the amazing gardens we were able to wander through between sessions. A personal favorite was the arid greenhouse, filled with gigantic cacti.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76104\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170614_183742_651-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170614_183742_651-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170614_183742_651-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170614_183742_651.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since coming back to Wyoming we&#8217;ve been working again on our AIM monitoring sites, but have also had time to explore new exciting places on our weekends. Even as a &#8220;local,&#8221; I&#8217;ve enjoyed discovering, or rediscovering, some gorgeous places in the Bighorn mountains, where the wildflowers are just starting to hit peak season. Below is an amazing meadow purple with lupine for miles, including the rare all-white lupine, one of the Seven Brothers lakes, and my personal favorite flower, M<em>yosotis alpestris. <\/em>I&#8217;m looking forward to what we find in the weeks to come!<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76106\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_095122-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_095122-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_095122-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_095122-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_095122-500x300.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-76107 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_100219-e1498510407253-360x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_100219-e1498510407253-360x600.jpg 360w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_100219-e1498510407253-768x1280.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_100219-e1498510407253-614x1024.jpg 614w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_100219-e1498510407253-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_100219-e1498510407253.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76108\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_123513-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_123513-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_123513-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_123513-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170625_123513-500x300.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76109\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unnamed-360x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unnamed-360x600.jpg 360w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unnamed-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unnamed.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past couple weeks of work, my crew and I finished training (yay!!) and have begun our work in the field! 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