{"id":3484,"date":"2013-06-18T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/gunnison-basin-bioblitz\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:18:21","slug":"gunnison-basin-bioblitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2013\/06\/18\/gunnison-basin-bioblitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunnison Basin Bioblitz!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Hannah Bower, CNHP intern<\/p>\n<p>Only those dedicated to the conservation of the rare skiff milkvetch (<i>Astragalus microcymbus<\/i>) would spend many warm windy hours hunkering over the prickly cacti and sagebrush of the Gunnison Basin to find just one individual.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6137\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/milkvetch_C.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><i>Astragulus microcymbus<\/i> (skiff milkvetch)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nFrom June 4th through June 6th, ten to twelve eager explorers set out on a time-intensive BioBlitz (led by Bernadette Kuhn, botanist at CNHP) in hopes to track down more of this rare species of milkvetch. Since many of the plants were only a few centimeters tall, the search was a difficult task and some botanists came out unlucky. However, no search is for naught, and by the end of the excursion, around 115 <i>Astragalus microcymbus<\/i> individuals were identified and many new areas were explored for this field season\u2019s search on the skiff milkvetch.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6138\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/fieldwork_C.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/fieldwork_C.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/fieldwork_C-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">Searching, searching, searching!<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Russ Japuntich (BLM), Gay Austin (BLM) and Hannah Bower &nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(CNHP intern)<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Skiff milkvetch is a Candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act. It is threatened by habitat fragmentation and degradation. The monitoring and surveys performed by the Bioblitz team will help us better understand the geographic extent, population numbers, and population trends of skiff milkvetch.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6139\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Bower_photo_C.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Bower_photo_C.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Bower_photo_C-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">Just another day on the job&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\n<i>Astragulus microcymbus<\/i> thanks you all for your support in its species\u2019 protection!<\/p>\n<p>A big thanks to the BioBlitz trip members:<br \/>\nBernadette Kuhn (CNHP Botanist)<br \/>\nPeggy Lyon (CNHP Botanist)<br \/>\nHunter Gleason(CNHP and Mountain Studies Institute Intern)<br \/>\nGay Austin (BLM Natural Resources Specialist)<br \/>\nRuss Japuntich (BLM Wildlife Biologist)<br \/>\nGina Glenne (USFWS Botanist)<br \/>\nAlicia Langton (USFWS Term Botanist)<br \/>\nMary Price (RMBL)<br \/>\nLarry Allison (volunteer)<br \/>\nLynn Lewis (volunteer)<br \/>\nMichelle DePrenger-Levin (DBG Research Associate)<br \/>\nEmily Wilson (DBG intern)<br \/>\nNick Waser (RMBL)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Hannah Bower, CNHP intern Only those dedicated to the conservation of the rare skiff milkvetch (Astragalus microcymbus) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-botany","8":"category-threatened-and-endangered-species","9":"entry","10":"override"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}