{"id":83533,"date":"2021-10-25T12:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T19:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=83533"},"modified":"2021-10-25T12:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T19:56:31","slug":"the-changing-of-the-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=83533","title":{"rendered":"The Changing of the Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1814\" height=\"1360\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5467.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5467.jpg 1814w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5467-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5467-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5467-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1814px) 100vw, 1814px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:57% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1360\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5281.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5281.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5281-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5281-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\">        I&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;believe October is&nbsp;ending&nbsp;already.&nbsp;The&nbsp;summer has&nbsp;come and gone faster than I could have ever imagined.&nbsp;However, fall on the&nbsp;Monongahela&nbsp;National Forest has been one of the best falls I have ever seen. The&nbsp;biodiversity of plants around the forest creates a&nbsp;unique and beautiful color change&nbsp;that creates an assorted color scape that changes&nbsp;every day.&nbsp;This fall is one I will never forget!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\">        With the changing of the seasons, my fieldwork has also changed along the way. The beginning of October came with the end of the summer field seasons for botany surveys.&nbsp;Many of the larger projects were finished in&nbsp;September, but&nbsp;I was able to help finish surveys for future trails on the southern half of the forest. This was an amazing&nbsp;opportunity&nbsp;to take in a lot of the early fall&nbsp;foliage&nbsp;and be able to help find more&nbsp;interesting and&nbsp;cool&nbsp;plants like&nbsp;ferns and&nbsp;fungi.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1360\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5352.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"83538\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5352.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?attachment_id=83538\" class=\"wp-image-83538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5352.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5352-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5352-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><em>&nbsp;Leratiomyces&nbsp;squamosus<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1360\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5350.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"83539\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5350.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?attachment_id=83539\" class=\"wp-image-83539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5350.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5350-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5350-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Northern Maidenhair Fern (<em>Adiantum pedatum<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\">        These&nbsp;past couple of weeks I&nbsp;have&nbsp;also&nbsp;been&nbsp;helping&nbsp;finish&nbsp;some of the research that I talked about on&nbsp;previous&nbsp;blog posts. Back in June and July, Katie and I helped a&nbsp;graduate&nbsp;student, Breezy,&nbsp;from&nbsp;Kentucky University on&nbsp;some of her research that compared bat behavior between&nbsp;wetlands in restoration and old forest locations. While&nbsp;Breezy&nbsp;is&nbsp;back at school, Anna&nbsp;Branduzzi&nbsp;from&nbsp;the non-profit Green Forest Works and I helped take water samples of her wetland&nbsp;locations.&nbsp;It was nice to see&nbsp;yet&nbsp;another aspect of Breezy\u2019s research and go back to some of the places and see how they are also changing during the fall.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1360\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5313-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5313-1.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5313-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5313-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><figcaption>Anna collecting water samples from wetlands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>        Even though&nbsp;the field season&nbsp;has ended for some people, there is other field work that has just begun. Specifically, I have had the opportunity to begin seed collection&nbsp;in&nbsp;various locations&nbsp;around the forest.&nbsp;Over the past week I have enjoyed this seed collection and have been excited at all the new techniques I have learned. Seed collection&nbsp;is&nbsp;interesting to me because the method of collection is different for every plant. While in undergraduate, I had&nbsp;previous&nbsp;internships where I collected&nbsp;seed from many herbaceous plants that can be found in prairie ecosystems.&nbsp;Even with this&nbsp;experience&nbsp;I was able to learn new ways of&nbsp;collection&nbsp;because&nbsp;of the&nbsp;several types&nbsp;to plants we were collecting from.&nbsp;These plants&nbsp;consist of&nbsp;tress&nbsp;like&nbsp;Mountain Ash, Stripped Aspen, and several types of Hawthorns.&nbsp;While collecting from&nbsp;tress,&nbsp;I was a little&nbsp;nervous&nbsp;about if I was going to be able to reach the berries or seeds because I&nbsp;am&nbsp;short. However, I learned that there are many techniques to help reach the higher up seeds.&nbsp;One example includes the methods used to collect mountain ash. To collect the groupings of berries at the ends of the higher branches we used a long pruner to&nbsp;cut&nbsp;off&nbsp;the&nbsp;berries&nbsp;from the branch&nbsp;and collect them&nbsp;off&nbsp;the ground. This method can be seen&nbsp;in&nbsp;the picture below of my co-worker,&nbsp;Hannah,&nbsp;using the long&nbsp;pruners.&nbsp;As we continue to collect seed in the coming month, the already collected seed will&nbsp;be sent to partnering nurseries within the&nbsp;states&nbsp;surrounding&nbsp;West Virginia. These nurseries will then grow the plants for restoration use in the coming years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1360\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5463-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5463-1.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5463-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5463-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><figcaption>My co-worker Hannah collecting Mountain Ash fruit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1360\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5385-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5385-1.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5385-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5385-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">          As I&nbsp;come&nbsp;into my last month of this&nbsp;internship,&nbsp;I have been doing so&nbsp;much reflection on just how much I have been able to&nbsp;accomplish&nbsp;and all the amazing people I have been able to meet along the way.&nbsp;I am so thankful for all the experiences this internship has already brought me and I&nbsp;cannot wait&nbsp;to&nbsp;see&nbsp;what this last month has to offer.&nbsp;I&nbsp;am excited to&nbsp;continue to collect seed and see everything that West Virginia and the Monongahela has to offer before going back home to&nbsp;Arizona and the desert.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;believe October is&nbsp;ending&nbsp;already.&nbsp;The&nbsp;summer has&nbsp;come and gone faster than I could have ever imagined.&nbsp;However, fall on the&nbsp;Monongahela&nbsp;National Forest has been one of the best falls I have ever seen. 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