{"id":11038,"date":"2017-05-09T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T18:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11038"},"modified":"2017-05-09T14:34:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T18:34:02","slug":"atlantas-old-growth-forests-gain-national-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/05\/atlantas-old-growth-forests-gain-national-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Atlanta\u2019s Old-Growth Forests gain national recognition&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of removal of many trees from around urban areas, some pockets of old-growth forest still remain. \u00a0The <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em> wrote about a few such remnant forests around Atlanta in an article earlier this week which noted that these forests have been recognized by the Maryland-based Old-Growth Forest Network. \u00a0You can read about it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myajc.com\/lifestyles\/home--garden\/atlanta-old-growth-forests-gain-national-recognition\/6CdZwvHyEtEU21aPOARGtI\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11039\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/atlanta-old-growth-seabrook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11039\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/atlanta-old-growth-seabrook-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/atlanta-old-growth-seabrook-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/atlanta-old-growth-seabrook-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/atlanta-old-growth-seabrook.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Seabrook stands in front of the City of Atlanta\u2019s champion silver maple tree in Herbert Taylor Park in Midtown Atlanta\u2019s Morningside area. The park is one of 14 old growth forests recently inducted into the national Old-Growth Forest Network. Contributed by Charles Seabrook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of removal of many trees from around urban areas, some pockets of old-growth forest still remain. \u00a0The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote about a few such remnant forests around Atlanta in an article earlier this week which noted that these forests have been recognized by the Maryland-based Old-Growth Forest Network. \u00a0You can read about it\u00a0here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":11039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11040,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038\/revisions\/11040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}