{"id":500,"date":"2015-07-31T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2015\/07\/31\/colonial-nhp-getting-caught-up\/"},"modified":"2015-07-31T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T23:47:00","slug":"colonial-nhp-getting-caught-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2015\/07\/31\/colonial-nhp-getting-caught-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial NHP: Getting Caught Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple weeks I have spent wrapping up in other divisions, as well as completing my conservation project. &nbsp;The week after fourth of July I started off doing graffiti removal with maintenance around the park. &nbsp;We have one bridge specifically which is a problem where kids hang out and tag it from top to bottom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-VMNwGIlHiIE\/VbwDC-P3QiI\/AAAAAAAAAEM\/hHxp4gIaHmE\/s320\/IMG_3693.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-FCa42SgRzjk\/VbwDDJiWgTI\/AAAAAAAAAEQ\/PDtrJvKIUg8\/s1600\/IMG_3692.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-FCa42SgRzjk\/VbwDDJiWgTI\/AAAAAAAAAEQ\/PDtrJvKIUg8\/s320\/IMG_3692.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: black\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 1em;text-align: left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-v9LviKhrj2U\/VbwD946VtTI\/AAAAAAAAAEc\/XPieu_7rYG0\/s1600\/IMG_3705.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-v9LviKhrj2U\/VbwD946VtTI\/AAAAAAAAAEc\/XPieu_7rYG0\/s320\/IMG_3705.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">Some of the walkway was re-leveled in some<br \/>places where it had become a tripping hazard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>After my day of graffiti removal I started working with the HPTC (Historic Preservation Training Center), crew who have been at COLO for weeks. &nbsp;For the majority of my time with HPTC I helped clean out the joints on the brick sidewalk to the Moore House. After they were cleaned out &nbsp;the joints were then filled with envirosand, which prevents weeds from growing up between the pathways<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-FCa42SgRzjk\/VbwDDJiWgTI\/AAAAAAAAAEQ\/PDtrJvKIUg8\/s1600\/IMG_3692.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><br \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In between my time with HPTC I worked with the Resource Division here at COLO. &nbsp;I spent time organizing an old ARPA violation in which pieces had been separated from each other over the years. &nbsp;I got the opportunity to GPS sample points around the park and work with the GIS system. &nbsp;I also got to go bird marsh monitoring to monitor for endangered species. &nbsp;It is part of a monitoring of the endangered birds up and down the East Coast. &nbsp;At the end of the week I helped set up wild life cameras to monitor the beaver dam. &nbsp;The beavers had started building a second dam in one of the ponds, we were interested in finding out why they hadn&#8217;t repaired their old one and started a new one. <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-cz852i60tTY\/VbwGzvHxYuI\/AAAAAAAAAEw\/hyC4PvxFM1s\/s320\/IMG_3702.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-g2U4Grw9sWA\/VbwGlBcaPqI\/AAAAAAAAAEo\/rHGRnUFCTvE\/s1600\/IMG_3701.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-g2U4Grw9sWA\/VbwGlBcaPqI\/AAAAAAAAAEo\/rHGRnUFCTvE\/s320\/IMG_3701.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">The time at Colonial has been flying by and I&#8217;m finishing up with the Protection Division, practicing handcuffing, and working on different scenarios. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple weeks I have spent wrapping up in other divisions, as well as completing my conservation project. &nbsp;The week after fourth of July&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2015\/07\/31\/colonial-nhp-getting-caught-up\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colonial NHP: Getting Caught Up<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,39,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-114","category-colonial-nhp","category-hannah-sender","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Paul Paire","author_link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/author\/paire\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}