{"id":11844,"date":"2017-07-21T21:55:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T01:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11844"},"modified":"2017-07-21T21:55:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T01:55:36","slug":"summer-storms-result-in-downed-trees-across-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/07\/summer-storms-result-in-downed-trees-across-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Summer storms result in downed trees across Georgia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent storm events have dropped trees in a number of places across the Southeast, including Georgia.\u00a0 Some trees are snapped by high winds, and others are uprooted when saturated soils weakens the grip that the tree roots\u00a0 have, resulting in trees that are tipped over by those winds.\u00a0 Paul Pugliese, the Georgia ANR agent in Bartow County, has a nice discussion about dealing with hazardous and downed trees and some things you can do to prevent damage in the future by\u00a0 picking trees that are less prone to snapping and siting and pruning them carefully.\u00a0 You can read the story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caes.uga.edu\/newswire\/story.html?storyid=6278&amp;story=Downed-Trees\">https:\/\/www.caes.uga.edu\/newswire\/story.html?storyid=6278&amp;story=Downed-Trees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6013\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6013\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak-245x138.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jibi44, Commons Wikimedia via Science<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent storm events have dropped trees in a number of places across the Southeast, including Georgia.\u00a0 Some trees are snapped by high winds, and others are uprooted when saturated soils weakens the grip that the tree roots\u00a0 have, resulting in trees that are tipped over by those winds.\u00a0 Paul Pugliese, the Georgia ANR agent in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":6013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-extension-agent-outreach","category-forestry","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844","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=11844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11845,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844\/revisions\/11845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}