{"id":7399,"date":"2019-06-04T16:46:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T16:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2021-06-08T21:33:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T21:33:07","slug":"former-cnhp-intern-guest-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2019\/06\/04\/former-cnhp-intern-guest-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CNHP Intern Guest Blog Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By:  Stephanie Moothart<\/strong> (Former CNHP Intern) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\nwas an intern with CNHP in spring 2016 and I am now working as a Master\u2019s\ngraduate student at Louisiana State University examining the effects of\nsalinity and sulfur on cypress growth in the Joyce Wildlife Management Area.&nbsp; It is an area that has a history of seawater\nintrusion from the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet Canal.&nbsp; This canal is now closed and there are future\nplans to create diversions to help flush out remnant seawater.&nbsp; There are also plans to replant cypress in\nsome areas.&nbsp; I hope to be able to assist\nin targeting the plantings to areas were cypress are likely to survive by\nexamining the soil and corresponding tree growth efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI have been\ncollecting my samples for the past three months and while it is fun to boat\naround, walking the swamps can be arduous with every step sinking you up past\nyour knees making it slow going.&nbsp; The\ntree cores are collected at normal diameter (18 inches above the last\nbuttressing) and so are often done from a ladder.&nbsp; There is a lot of wildlife around including\nalligators, snakes, spiders, leeches, nutria and a lot of really cool birds I had\nnever seen before like swallow tailed kites.&nbsp;\nI am loving my time at LSU working in forested wetlands.&nbsp; I am glad for the experience my time with\nCNHP gave me which helped to confirm that natural resources was something I\nwanted to pursue further.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"581\" height=\"775\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/06\/Blog1.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7401\" data-link=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/?attachment_id=7401\" class=\"wp-image-7401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/06\/Blog1.png 581w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/06\/Blog1-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"583\" height=\"777\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/06\/Blog2.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7400\" data-link=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/?attachment_id=7400\" class=\"wp-image-7400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/06\/Blog2.png 583w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/06\/Blog2-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Stephanie Moothart (Former CNHP Intern) I was an intern with CNHP in spring 2016 and I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7401,"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":[72,59,73,52,28,18,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cnhp","category-cnhp-interns","category-colorado-natural-heritage-program","category-csu-students","category-education","category-internships","category-students","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399","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=7399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}