{"id":78056,"date":"2017-10-15T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T03:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=78056"},"modified":"2017-10-15T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T03:22:10","slug":"things-that-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=78056","title":{"rendered":"Things That Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past month we’ve gotten the opportunity to work on a bunch of really cool projects! We’ve tagged monarch butterflies,\u00a0gone caving, helped assess\u00a0wetland function, and\u00a0electrofished!\"\"<\/p>\n

We spent a couple days chasing down butterflies. It was lots of fun! Idaho Fish and Game tags monarch butterflies to try and track their\u00a0migration patterns. This is important especially since a recent study by the US Fish and Wildlife Service found that monarch butterfly populations in the west are dramatically declining. The tags are little stickers, about the size of a hole punch with\u00a0tiny\u00a0identification numbers on them. Hopefully,\u00a0the butterflies\u00a0will get recaptured somewhere\u00a0along their migration route so we learn more about what happens to them once they leave Idaho. I got to tag one and test it for disease. Here is a shot of me holding\u00a0the butterfly I tagged!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the butterflies were too few and too fast so we weren’t able to catch very many. We did, however, catch some cool bumblebees! Below is a series of pictures of me catching Hunt’s bumblebee (Bombus huntii) so it can be photographed, identified and uploaded to a citizen science project on the Bumble Bee Watch app.\"\" \"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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I also really enjoyed helping with Properly Functioning Condition assessments for wetlands. I enjoyed getting to learn new riparian plants and hiking along beautiful streams, like this one below. It was a cool experience to explore wetlands here in the desert, because they are so different than the ones I’m used to back east.<\/p>\n

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Last week, fall\/winter came all of a sudden.\u00a0We even got some flurries up north in the Sawtooth National Forest\u00a0where we were electrofishing. It was beautiful but pretty chilly for standing waist deep in a river.<\/p>\n

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I’ve really enjoyed getting to work with wildlife more this season. It’s something I haven’t really done before and it’s been fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past month we’ve gotten the opportunity to work on a bunch of really cool projects! We’ve tagged monarch butterflies,\u00a0gone caving, helped assess\u00a0wetland function, and\u00a0electrofished! We spent a couple days chasing down butterflies. It was lots of fun! Idaho Fish … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7415,"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\/78056"}],"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\/7415"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78056"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78496,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78056\/revisions\/78496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}