{"id":3,"date":"2023-10-10T19:29:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/?p=3"},"modified":"2023-12-08T12:13:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T17:13:03","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/2023\/10\/10\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"first blog post!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1802\" height=\"1192\" class=\"wp-image-9\" style=\"width: 550px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-05-at-10.48.38-AM.png\" alt=\"Place location\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-05-at-10.48.38-AM.png 1802w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-05-at-10.48.38-AM-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-05-at-10.48.38-AM-1024x677.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-05-at-10.48.38-AM-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-05-at-10.48.38-AM-1536x1016.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-05-at-10.48.38-AM-624x413.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1802px) 100vw, 1802px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First blog post!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My place is Red Rocks Park. It&#8217;s located in South Burlington and takes about fifteen minutes to get there by bus &#8211; I took the 2 from the UVM Medical Center to Pearl Street and then the 5 to almost the end of the line. It got me feeling really good at public transport. Once you get to the parking lot, you need to walk about a quarter mile to actually get to the trailhead. Then, take the left pathway up about 100 yards until you see a large boulder that marks the central point of the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I chose this place because I wanted to investigate how that proximity to Lake Champlain impacted the natural systems within Red Rocks Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/full-view-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/full-view-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/full-view-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/full-view-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/full-view-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/full-view-1-648x365.png 648w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/full-view-1-341x192.png 341w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/full-view-1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The park itself is made up of primarily maples, ashes, hickories, and oaks. However, my chosen area seemed to have more pines than usual. When I looked at the ground in other areas of the park, it was covered in acorns. Here, though, the forest floor was made up of mostly pine needles, downed trees, and few fallen leaves from sporadic oaks and maples. There were also a few young hemlocks farther away from the trail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also spotted this little guy eating an acorn. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-10-at-7.27.33-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21\" style=\"width:285px;height:256px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-10-at-7.27.33-PM.png 788w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-10-at-7.27.33-PM-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-10-at-7.27.33-PM-768x688.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-10-at-7.27.33-PM-624x559.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gray squirrel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First blog post! My place is Red Rocks Park. It&#8217;s located in South Burlington and takes about fifteen minutes to get there by bus &#8211; I took the 2 from the UVM Medical Center to Pearl Street and then the 5 to almost the end of the line. It got me feeling really good at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/2023\/10\/10\/introduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">first blog post!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"gsalbrec","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/author\/gsalbrec\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}