{"id":544,"date":"2007-08-23T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/sand-cholla-and-desert\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:29:00","slug":"sand-cholla-and-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/sand-cholla-and-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Cholla and desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertusa.com\/mag99\/may\/papr\/photos\/IMG_1710.jpg\" alt=\"Cholla in the desert\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nToday is exciting, a colleague and I are headed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/geothermal.marin.org\/GEOpresentation\/sld058.htm\">East Dixie Valley in Nevada<\/a> to do a preliminary survey of the land parcel we won at auction earlier this month for <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/\">Montara Energy Ventures<\/a>. We&#8217;ll take photos, gps readings, and do some geological observation to understand this particular parcel and begin to plan our detailed exploration of the land.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe one restriction we have is to spare the sand cholla (pronounced choy-ya) or Opuntia pulchella or cactus if you prefer. We&#8217;ll drive out to the parcel this morning from Reno &#8211; having just spent another night at the Nugget&#8230;.I&#8217;ll post a photo or two tomorrow of what we see. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is exciting, a colleague and I are headed to the East Dixie Valley in Nevada to do a preliminary survey of the land parcel we won at auction earlier this month for Montara Energy Ventures. We&#8217;ll take photos, gps readings, and do some geological observation to understand this particular parcel and begin to plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}