{"id":4421,"date":"2015-09-16T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T18:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2015-09-16T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T18:37:36","slug":"western-forest-fires-have-severe-impacts-on-cattle-ranchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/09\/western-forest-fires-have-severe-impacts-on-cattle-ranchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Western forest fires have severe impacts on cattle ranchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AgWeb<\/em> published a story today on the adverse impacts of the forest fires that are raging across the Western US on cattle and ranchers. \u00a0Much of the land that has burned is leased for grazing, and some ranchers have had significant losses of cattle and hay as well as destruction of barns and equipment. \u00a0 Miles of fencing has been destroyed by the blazes.<\/p>\n<p>The impacts are worse this year because hay production and supply are already down due to the multi-year drought which has contributed to the fires. \u00a0You can read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/as-wildfires-rage-in-west-ranchers-lose-cattle-rangeland-NAA-associated-press\/?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoluqnAZKXonjHpfsX%2F6uUpXaeg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YcBTMV0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEATrPYRadit6IEWA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3904\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Wildfire_in_the_Pacific_Northwest_8776249150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3904\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Wildfire_in_the_Pacific_Northwest_8776249150-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Bureau of Land Management \/ Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Wildfire_in_the_Pacific_Northwest_8776249150-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Wildfire_in_the_Pacific_Northwest_8776249150-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Wildfire_in_the_Pacific_Northwest_8776249150.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Bureau of Land Management \/ Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AgWeb published a story today on the adverse impacts of the forest fires that are raging across the Western US on cattle and ranchers. \u00a0Much of the land that has burned is leased for grazing, and some ranchers have had significant losses of cattle and hay as well as destruction of barns and equipment. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","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=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4422,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions\/4422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}