{"id":89466,"date":"2024-09-18T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=89466"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T22:03:35","slug":"flourishing-in-utahs-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=89466","title":{"rendered":"Flourishing in Utah’s Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

July’s sizzling temperatures have helped me realize that I am, indeed, a little lizard. How else am I to explain how much I loved being out and about full-sun mid July in Utah? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Art Nord – Wheeler Creek trail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The beautiful landscape and weather make this easily one of the best offices I’ve had the pleasure of working in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a particular trail we can’t seem to stop revisiting due to the amount of target species we are finding. Art Nord’s Wheeler Creek trail has truly been a gold mine of harvestable populations! The list currently consists of Chaenactic douglasii, Eriogonum heracleoides, Eriogonum umbellatum, Lomatium dissectum<\/em>, and Purshia tridentata<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve completed a few collections, unfortunately, we now know what it’s like to miss a population. When we first started, Balsamorhiza sagittata<\/em> (BASA) seemed to be everywhere. As we began scouting for new ecoregions and populations we took BASA’s abundance for granted…missing a population has been extremely frustrating but, I try to stay positive in that we’ll collect from another population and that the particular population we missed will likely flourish next season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, this past month also provided me the luxury of camping for a week in the Heber-Kamas east zone with the Botany department and Student Conservation Association (SCA) Interns where I had the opportunity to act as a botany tech lead! We worked on multiple surveys for two proposed timber sales (Silver Meadows Timber Sale and Flytree Timber Sale) as well as two large sections of a fuels reduction project. Throughout the 698 acres we kept our eyes peeled for Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive (TES) species: Botrychium crenulatum, Botrychium lineare, Corydalis caseana ssp brachycarpa, Cyprepedium fasciculatum<\/em>, and Cypripedium parviflorum<\/em>. Fortunately for me, I’d seen a few in previous surveys so I knew what to look for and could help provide tips and guidance for others. We didn’t find anything in the proposed polygons however, a decent population of the tiny Botrychiums<\/em> were spotted in a meadow not too far from camp. The little guys were no longer than my pinky!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Botrychium<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Botrychium<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Forest survey views<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Meadow views<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Camp at dusk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One of many cool aspects of this internship is the amount of collaboration we get to take part in. A team from the Great Basin Institute had been in contact with our FS mentor and so we coordinated with them to complete a Lomatium dissectum<\/em> (LODI) and BASA population collection. They follow the seeds of success protocol which was extremely useful to see in action! Thank you to Brian for being an amazing lead and mentor!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brian conducting a LODI seed cut test<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Seed cut test for BASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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BASA harvest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another blog post means another month has come and gone. I’m enjoying this seasonal internship too much, if that’s possible, and just wish it could be a permanent position \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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