{"id":88829,"date":"2024-08-07T13:22:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T20:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=88829"},"modified":"2024-08-07T13:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T20:22:40","slug":"july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=88829","title":{"rendered":"July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This month, I have been reminded of the resilience and beauty of the desert. I love seeing the giant tarantulas crossing the campsite roads in Payson and seeing the wild Palo Verdes reminiscent of a certain Dr. Seuss book. It&#8217;s striking to me the amount of life that lives and thrives in a place that regularly saps my strength at over 90 degrees every day. I put my hand into the soil at a site in the Tonto Forest the other day. The site is called Leo Grove, and over the last few weeks, we&#8217;ve been weeding, fencing, and making transects to turn it into an experimental plot. It&#8217;s been thinned, but has Ponderosa Pines all around the area. It was striking to me that I could very nearly slip my hand into the soil almost without needing a shovel, and seeing how soft and moist it was under the surface beneath the pine needles. I thought it was funny how consistent Arizona was with spiky things- spiky plants, spikey snakes and insects, and even spikey dirt. Under the surface, however, everything is soft, delicate, and full of life, waiting to sprout. I think that seeing the resilience of the things here gives me hope for the life to come in the future, and maybe, more things could benefit from being a little prickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"758\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-29-at-4.43.41-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-29-at-4.43.41-PM.png 758w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-29-at-4.43.41-PM-340x300.png 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_7142-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_7142-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_7142-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_7142-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_7142-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_7142-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, I have been reminded of the resilience and beauty of the desert. I love seeing the giant tarantulas crossing the campsite roads in Payson and seeing the wild Palo Verdes reminiscent of a certain Dr. Seuss book. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=88829\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7628,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3634],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88829"}],"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\/7628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89363,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88829\/revisions\/89363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}