{"id":91053,"date":"2024-10-22T09:56:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T16:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=91053"},"modified":"2024-10-22T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T16:56:50","slug":"last-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=91053","title":{"rendered":"Last Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is my last day as a CLM Seed Collection Intern, and my last day on the forest. To say I am feeling nostalgic would be an understatement. This job has been so fun and rewarding in so many ways! I could write on and on about the experiences that I had, and the things that I will miss the most, but I worry that there isn&#8217;t enough time in the world to do all of that. So instead, I comprised a few lists of the things I learned and the things I will miss the most. Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things I will miss:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>First and foremost, MY CO-INTERN! I spent 40 hours a week with her all summer and never got sick of her. Hikes won&#8217;t feel the same without her!<\/li><li>Our truck. She was small, but sturdy- good ole&#8217; reliable.<\/li><li>The forest. I feel like I know her better now, and she&#8217;s still as beautiful as ever to me. <\/li><li>Sunrises. I never knew what they looked like before this job (sleeping in will be nice though).<\/li><li>Plants, plants, plants. I can&#8217;t believe I got paid to hike all day and look at plants. Life is good.<\/li><li>My coworkers! FINALLY people who want to talk about plants all day long! They are my kind of people.<\/li><li>Lastly, feeling like I am making a difference. Restoration work is so important! I want my grandkids to be able to enjoy the great outdoors just like I have. Somebody needs to have the forest&#8217;s back, and if not us, then who?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>My Favorite Experiences:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>One of the first things we did was a drone survey of Maguire&#8217;s Primrose &#8211; a plant endemic to a 10 mile corridor on our forest. So dope.<\/li><li>All of the beautiful mountain lakes we hiked to!<\/li><li>Finding Lady Slippers &#8211; a rare orchid, in our forest. Who knew that orchids grew in non-tropical environments? Not me.<\/li><li>Beaver trapping. Those little guys are so cute!<\/li><li>Pesticide applications. ALL WEEDS MUST DIE (especially dyers woad).<\/li><li>Collaborating with the Weber Basin SOS crew, and finding the biggest mushroom known to man.<\/li><li>Completing my first large-scale botany survey &#8211; the North Zone Aspen Project.<\/li><li>Collecting <em>Lomatium triternatum<\/em>&#8211; one of our biggest populations, and in the most beautiful location too, on the very top of a mountain peak. <\/li><li>A mountain lake pesticide application to kill Eurasian Watermilfoil. We used the biggest drone I have ever seen!<\/li><li>Seeing all of the cute livestock doggos in the mountains. <\/li><li>Harvesting Milkweed. Go team monarchs!<\/li><li>Electrofishing. We caught 137 fish in 2 hours! <\/li><li>Teaching the Weber Basin Job Corp students all about seed collection, and then completing our biggest collection yet with them the next day. We got A LOT of Western Cone Flower seeds &#8211; over 45 bags!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, this has been such a rewarding, and fun experience, and I have loved being a part of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my last day as a CLM Seed Collection Intern, and my last day on the forest. To say I am feeling nostalgic would be an understatement. 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