{"id":7763,"date":"2020-08-14T16:44:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/?p=7763"},"modified":"2021-06-08T21:30:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T21:30:33","slug":"blog-by-cnhp-intern-zachariah-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2020\/08\/14\/blog-by-cnhp-intern-zachariah-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog by CNHP Intern, Zachariah Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/08\/zac_2020_bouldwet_lobelia-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7765\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/08\/zac_2020_bouldwet_lobelia-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/?attachment_id=7765\" class=\"wp-image-7765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/08\/zac_2020_bouldwet_lobelia-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/08\/zac_2020_bouldwet_lobelia-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/08\/zac_2020_bouldwet_lobelia-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/08\/zac_2020_bouldwet_lobelia-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/08\/zac_2020_bouldwet_lobelia-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/08\/zac_2020_bouldwet_crossthingie-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7764\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/08\/zac_2020_bouldwet_crossthingie-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/?attachment_id=7764\" class=\"wp-image-7764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/08\/zac_2020_bouldwet_crossthingie-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/08\/zac_2020_bouldwet_crossthingie-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/08\/zac_2020_bouldwet_crossthingie-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/08\/zac_2020_bouldwet_crossthingie-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/08\/zac_2020_bouldwet_crossthingie-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On my last field day for the Siegele internship, August 12, I was helping perform wetland assessments in Boulder County open space. The wetlands there were particularly biodiverse in some places and it was an incredible place to see during such a dry summer. One of the wetlands we assessed had a huge number of blue flowers,&nbsp;<em>Lobelia siphilitica<\/em>, blooming on the edges. This plant isn&#8217;t particularly rare on a global scale, but it is still a flower I had never seen before, and they look nice. Another wetland fed by a spring, on the other hand, had a strange feature. In the middle of the spring was a large metal cross with a nail at the intersection. This monument was dripping water and was evidently drawing&nbsp;water from the spring to produce this effect. I have no idea what it is or why it&#8217;s there, but it sure was an interesting find on my last day in the field for the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my last field day for the Siegele internship, August 12, I was helping perform wetland assessments in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_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":[12,5,72,9,59,52,18,55,96,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-about-cnhp","category-botany","category-cnhp","category-cnhp-in-the-news","category-cnhp-interns","category-csu-students","category-internships","category-natural-heritage-programs","category-siegele-conservation-science-internship","category-students","category-wetlands","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763","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=7763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}