{"id":78563,"date":"2017-10-21T21:50:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T04:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=78563"},"modified":"2017-10-21T21:50:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T04:50:52","slug":"a-season-of-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=78563","title":{"rendered":"A Season of Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-78569 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0548-e1508360716815-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0548-e1508360716815-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0548-e1508360716815-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0548-e1508360716815-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The past five months haven&#8217;t always been easy for me. It was harder than I expected to move so far from home, but I&#8217;m glad I did. The landscape of southern Idaho is full of surprises. From a distance, it may look like an endless sea of sagebrush and grass, but when you take a closer look, you find all sorts of incredible things such as giant rock formations, lava tubes, and dramatic canyons.\u00a0You also find bright colors and beautiful wildflowers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-78568 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0485-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0485-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0485-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0485-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0485-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-78565\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0561-e1508359811553-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0561-e1508359811553-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0561-e1508359811553-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0561-e1508359811553-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-78571\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Image-1-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Image-1-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Image-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Image-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Image-1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-78567 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FullSizeRender-1-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FullSizeRender-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FullSizeRender-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FullSizeRender-1-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FullSizeRender-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the season, I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to try all kinds of new things personally and professionally. Here are a couple of my firsts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First time living out west<\/li>\n<li>First time monitoring\u00a0wildlife<\/li>\n<li>First time\u00a0driving a pickup<\/li>\n<li>First time driving off-road<\/li>\n<li>First time electrofishing<\/li>\n<li>First time seeing a wildfire<\/li>\n<li>First rodeo<\/li>\n<li>First time on a UTV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_78564\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78564\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-78564\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0495-e1508359703279-580x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0495-e1508359703279-580x600.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0495-e1508359703279-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0495-e1508359703279.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-78564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My first rodeo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to all the interns, our crew leads, my mentor, Joanna, and all of the people in our office who showed us around and answered our questions for a great field season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past five months haven&#8217;t always been easy for me. It was harder than I expected to move so far from home, but I&#8217;m glad I did. The landscape of southern Idaho is full of surprises. From a distance, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=78563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/78563"}],"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=78563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78574,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78563\/revisions\/78574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}