{"id":12562,"date":"2017-09-23T15:45:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T19:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12562"},"modified":"2017-09-23T15:45:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T19:45:21","slug":"why-the-west-is-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/09\/why-the-west-is-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why the West is burning&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Outside<\/em> magazine has an excellent article describing the causes of the forest fires which are currently covering wide swaths of the western United States. The biggest culprit is the continuing drought which has affected parts of the region this year.\u00a0 The wet winter may have also been a factor, since it allowed the regrowth of vegetation that has been stunted for the last few years by the lengthy California drought.\u00a0 You can read the article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2239836\/why-west-burning\">https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2239836\/why-west-burning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/west-burning_h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12563\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/west-burning_h-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/west-burning_h-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/west-burning_h-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/west-burning_h-246x138.jpg 246w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/west-burning_h.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside magazine has an excellent article describing the causes of the forest fires which are currently covering wide swaths of the western United States. The biggest culprit is the continuing drought which has affected parts of the region this year.\u00a0 The wet winter may have also been a factor, since it allowed the regrowth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":12563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12562","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\/12562","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=12562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12564,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12562\/revisions\/12564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}