{"id":77390,"date":"2017-09-03T16:22:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T23:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=77390"},"modified":"2017-09-03T16:22:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T23:22:49","slug":"third-trucks-a-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=77390","title":{"rendered":"Third trucks a charm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alyssa and I are officially half way through our time here in Sparks, NV. We have FINALLY found\u00a0Erigeron speciosus. <\/em>We have\u00a0plenty of populations to collect from and will hopefully finish that task this\u00a0week.\u00a0It is such a relief to be able to move on and complete that goal! We are incredibly familiar with the upper east side district\u00a0of Mountain City and Jarbidge and\u00a0are completely spoiled by the camping accommodations there. Wild Horse State Recreation Area is\u00a0beautiful at sunset.\"\"
\nOur mentor, Dirk,\u00a0keeps us involved in the\u00a0daily tasks of a Forest Botanist.\u00a0Last week,\u00a0he\u00a0let\u00a0us sit in on a meeting between\u00a0the\u00a0Nature Conservancy, USFS,\u00a0Bureau of Land\u00a0Management and Fish and Wildlife.\u00a0Witnessing\u00a0great minds from all these\u00a0different institutions work\u00a0towards a\u00a0common\u00a0goal is really\u00a0inspiring. We are also involved in the discussion of protocols. We will also be preparing a presentation for our USFS office in Sparks as well as traveling to Utah in September to present to the National Botanist. As intimidating as this is, it will be a great opportunity to spread the word about SOS as well as work on my presentation skills.
\nWe are not having great luck with our work trucks, though. Our first was taken away for a different project\u00a0(intern problems) and unfortunately, as we were heading out into the field, our second truck was hit. So, third truck is\u00a0a charm, right?
\nLast week, we traveled to Bridgeport in California and helped the wildlife biologist in our office search for tadpoles and baby toads and frogs in known breeding areas. Mostly, we were searching for the Yosemite toad. Apparently I have an eye for toads and frogs, who knew? I really enjoyed getting a break from plants (just a small one). Bridgeport and the Tahoe meadows are my two favorite places to go. Near the beginning of our internship, the meadows were still covered and snow, and now we can walk all of the paths and explore so many areas!<\/p>\n

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Beautiful waterfall views around 9500 ft<\/p><\/div>\n

That is it for now, hope everyone is enjoying their summer!<\/p>\n

-Payton Kraus
\nSparks, NV<\/p>\n

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Alyssa and I are officially half way through our time here in Sparks, NV. We have FINALLY found\u00a0Erigeron speciosus. We have\u00a0plenty of populations to collect from and will hopefully finish that task this\u00a0week.\u00a0It is such a relief to be able … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7435,"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\/77390"}],"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\/7435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77410,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77390\/revisions\/77410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}