{"id":21,"date":"2024-12-01T18:44:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/?p=21"},"modified":"2024-12-01T18:44:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:44:16","slug":"late-november-at-cochituate-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/2024\/12\/01\/late-november-at-cochituate-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Late November at Cochituate State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"887\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/files\/2024\/11\/42\u00b01913.4_N-71\u00b02239.2_W-Google-Maps-Google-Chrome-11_30_2024-8_49_27-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22\" style=\"width:484px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/files\/2024\/11\/42\u00b01913.4_N-71\u00b02239.2_W-Google-Maps-Google-Chrome-11_30_2024-8_49_27-PM.png 887w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/files\/2024\/11\/42\u00b01913.4_N-71\u00b02239.2_W-Google-Maps-Google-Chrome-11_30_2024-8_49_27-PM-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/files\/2024\/11\/42\u00b01913.4_N-71\u00b02239.2_W-Google-Maps-Google-Chrome-11_30_2024-8_49_27-PM-768x558.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was growing up in Wayland Massachusetts, my friends and I used to take long walks around Lake Cochituate. One of our favorite places to go was the point, a small peninsula that jutted out from the lake and gave a good view up and down the length of the lake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"651\" height=\"869\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/files\/2024\/12\/20240708_195922.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26\" style=\"width:368px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/files\/2024\/12\/20240708_195922.jpg 651w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/files\/2024\/12\/20240708_195922-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, this spot is very similar ecologically to my spot in Centennial Woods. The soil is very sandy and eastern white pines are very prominent in both sites. However, there are a few differences. In Centennial woods, the pines are very old, yet sparse. In the point, the pines were much younger, around 30-50 years old, and almost completely dominant. Centennial woods has a much greater diversity of species, including black cherry, eastern hemlock, and yellow birch which were completely absent from Cochituate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"869\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/files\/2024\/12\/20240616_195027.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27\" style=\"width:432px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/files\/2024\/12\/20240616_195027.jpg 696w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/files\/2024\/12\/20240616_195027-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was growing up in Wayland Massachusetts, my friends and I used to take long walks around Lake Cochituate. One of our favorite places to go was the point, a small peninsula that jutted out from the lake and gave a good view up and down the length of the lake. Interestingly, this spot &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/2024\/12\/01\/late-november-at-cochituate-state-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Late November at Cochituate State Park&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jbenne10","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/author\/jbenne10\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}