{"id":77833,"date":"2017-11-13T09:56:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=77833"},"modified":"2017-11-13T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T16:56:55","slug":"switching-gears-for-an-ending-field-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=77833","title":{"rendered":"Switching Gears for an Ending Field Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings,<\/p>\n<p>A lot has happened since I last blogged. The Taos area saw snow in the mountains in early October. It was a beautiful and saddening sight since the event signaled the end of the field season.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_78589\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78589\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-78589 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KIMG2126-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KIMG2126-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KIMG2126-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KIMG2126-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KIMG2126-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KIMG2126.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-78589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow could be seen in the Mountains in Early October from the Ute Mountian area<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My coworker and I have been working\u00a0diligently to finish our end of the season work. We have sent off the rest of our seed to bend, mounted our specimens, and finished the annual report. We have a couple of things left to do.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_78466\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78466\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-78466 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_4237-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_4237-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_4237-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_4237-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_4237-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_4237.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-78466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coworker Organizing Herbarium Specimens<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our last field day was October 18th at San Antonio mountain. It was a\u00a0glorious autumn day. We made two collections, <em>Artemisia frigida<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Ericameria<\/em> <em>nauseosa<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_78582\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78582\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-78582 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ARFR4_NM018-152_C-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ARFR4_NM018-152_C-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ARFR4_NM018-152_C-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ARFR4_NM018-152_C-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ARFR4_NM018-152_C-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ARFR4_NM018-152_C.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-78582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Antonio Mt, New Mexico on a beautiful October day<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_78581\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78581\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-78581 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ARFR4_NM018-152_B-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ARFR4_NM018-152_B-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ARFR4_NM018-152_B-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ARFR4_NM018-152_B-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ARFR4_NM018-152_B-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ARFR4_NM018-152_B.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-78581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artemisia frigida collected on a beautiful October day at San Antonio Mt.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_78880\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78880\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78880\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_4313-1-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_4313-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_4313-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_4313-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_4313-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_4313-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-78880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last field day, pressing herbarium vouchers for <em>Ericameria<\/em> <em>nauseosa<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Around mid-September, we attended the Native Plant Society of New Mexico conference. The conference was amazing! The presentations and field trips acquainted me with\u00a0the rich\u00a0history of the area, plants used by the prehistoric Pueblo people, and local research projects. My favorite part of the conference was the Paleoecology of Fort Burgwin field trip. The leader, Richard Ford,\u00a0show us examples of how\u00a0prehistoric\u00a0Pueblo\u00a0people\u00a0controlled\u00a0water flow, areas where houses used to exist, and a mulch garden with\u00a0<em>Liatris punctata.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_78587\" style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78587\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-78587 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KIMG2112-338x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KIMG2112-338x600.jpg 338w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KIMG2112-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KIMG2112-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KIMG2112-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KIMG2112.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-78587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cute Alpaca for your viewing pleasure! This\u00a0adorable fuzzy creature is a resident of the Benson Ranch we visited during the Range Restoration Field Trip.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, A lot has happened since I last blogged. The Taos area saw snow in the mountains in early October. It was a beautiful and saddening sight since the event signaled the end of the field season. My coworker and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=77833\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7430,"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\/77833"}],"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\/7430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77833"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78888,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77833\/revisions\/78888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}