{"id":73,"date":"2019-04-24T21:42:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T01:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/?p=73"},"modified":"2019-04-24T21:47:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T01:47:30","slug":"springtime-in-centennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/2019\/04\/24\/springtime-in-centennial\/","title":{"rendered":"Springtime in Centennial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I haven&#8217;t visited my site too many times since the snowmelt. And as if the shock of seeing the area out from under its blanket of snow wasn&#8217;t enough, I was amazed today as I turned the bend in the path to see that nearly all of the vegetation in my site had been cleared. <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7512-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74\" width=\"457\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7512-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7512-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Since power lines go through the area, all of the plants are cut down every few years to prevent interference with the wires. Although I know that this practice is what makes the area unique, with a completely different distribution of species than in the surrounding forest, it&#8217;s sad to see it happen. The tall stag horn sumac with its fluffy red flowers I had come to love are all gone, and what was once a meadow is now mostly flattened dead grass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our mission this week was to search for any wildflowers which may be popping up or trees which are leafing-out or creating flowers. This proved to be rather difficult for me, and I can&#8217;t help but wonder if things would be different had my site not been so drastically disturbed so recently.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7517-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7517-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7517-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7517-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7517-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7517-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p> However, I was very excited to see a bunch of fiddlehead ferns popping up from where all of the vegetation had been! I believe these are Cinnamon Fern fiddleheads (<em>Osmundastrum cinnamomeum<\/em>) because of their fuzzy white exterior. I didn&#8217;t see any fiddleheads in the rest of centennial, so maybe this is one exciting product of all that disturbance. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7524-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7524-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7524-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>One young tree was full of clustered yellow flowers on my site. Doing some identification at home I  believe it&#8217;s probably a young pussy willow (<em>Salix discolor).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7533-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7533-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7533-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7533-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7533-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7533-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>This is the one other flowering plant I was able to find, which I still haven&#8217;t managed to identify. I&#8217;m hoping uploading it to iNaturalist will help with that process. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7535-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7535-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7535-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7535-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7535-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7535-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><figcaption>Sketch of Pussy willow (Salix discolor) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t visited my site too many times since the snowmelt. And as if the shock of seeing the area out from under its blanket of snow wasn&#8217;t enough, I was amazed today as I turned the bend in the path to see that nearly all of the vegetation in my site had been cleared. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/2019\/04\/24\/springtime-in-centennial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Springtime in Centennial&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lkolba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}