{"id":12094,"date":"2017-08-12T23:37:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T03:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12094"},"modified":"2017-08-12T23:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T03:37:52","slug":"bringing-back-longleaf-pines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/08\/bringing-back-longleaf-pines\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing back longleaf pines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Fish and Wildlife Service had an interesting story this week about two farmers in the Southeast who are working to restore longleaf pine forests in the region. Longleaf pine acreage was reduced to about 3 million acres at one time but is now making a comeback thanks to the work of these folks.\u00a0 You can read more about what makes longleaf pines so special and what the farmers are doing to bring them back at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/southeast\/articles\/growing-trees-saving-species\/\">https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/southeast\/articles\/growing-trees-saving-species\/<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/longleaf-pine-seedling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12095\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/longleaf-pine-seedling-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/longleaf-pine-seedling-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/longleaf-pine-seedling.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/longleaf-pine-seedling-104x138.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Fish and Wildlife Service had an interesting story this week about two farmers in the Southeast who are working to restore longleaf pine forests in the region. Longleaf pine acreage was reduced to about 3 million acres at one time but is now making a comeback thanks to the work of these folks.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":12095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-forestry","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12096,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094\/revisions\/12096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}