{"id":17346,"date":"2019-06-20T08:11:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=17346"},"modified":"2019-06-20T08:11:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:11:33","slug":"floridas-timber-rotting-away-after-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2019\/06\/floridas-timber-rotting-away-after-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida&#8217;s timber rotting away after Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fox News<\/em> reported that most of the 3 million acres of forestland that was destroyed by Hurricane Michael in 2018 is literally rotting away on the ground. Only about 13 percent of it has been recovered so far. Many timber producers are seeing their life savings lost because it is not possible to salvage all the trees that were blown down in the storm. You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/florida-timber-farmers-hurricane-michael?fbclid=IwAR1KuBD9aCqHiwMLBepM2aAnQysKpU_CzcDAPiFTCl9jO59T5h9xvw-0oDk\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16020\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16020\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/michael-damage-to-trees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16020\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/michael-damage-to-trees-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/michael-damage-to-trees-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/michael-damage-to-trees-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/michael-damage-to-trees-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/michael-damage-to-trees-276x138.jpg 276w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/michael-damage-to-trees.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Georgia Forestry Commission Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reported that most of the 3 million acres of forestland that was destroyed by Hurricane Michael in 2018 is literally rotting away on the ground. Only about 13 percent of it has been recovered so far. Many timber producers are seeing their life savings lost because it is not possible to salvage all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":16020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-forestry","category-forests","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17346","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=17346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17347,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17346\/revisions\/17347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}