{"id":6104,"date":"2016-02-16T15:42:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6104"},"modified":"2016-02-16T15:42:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:42:31","slug":"droughts-alarming-toll-on-california-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/droughts-alarming-toll-on-california-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought&#8217;s alarming toll on California forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>WaterDeeply<\/em> web site has a new article describing the ravages that multiple years of drought are taking on forests and trees in California.\u00a0 According to the article 120 million trees there are at risk of dying due to the severe drought.\u00a0 This is a huge concern because of its potential for making wildfires in the area worse in the future as the dead trees become fuel for larger fires.\u00a0 You can read the article at <strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterdeeply.org\/articles\/2016\/02\/9616\/droughts-alarming-toll-california-forests\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.waterdeeply.org\/articles\/2016\/02\/9616\/droughts-alarming-toll-california-forests\/.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6105\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/Dead_Tree_near_Rush_Creek_Preserve_Novato_California.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6105\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6105\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/Dead_Tree_near_Rush_Creek_Preserve_Novato_California-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Payton Walton, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/Dead_Tree_near_Rush_Creek_Preserve_Novato_California-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/Dead_Tree_near_Rush_Creek_Preserve_Novato_California-104x138.jpg 104w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/Dead_Tree_near_Rush_Creek_Preserve_Novato_California.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Payton Walton, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1455645637128_205264\"><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WaterDeeply web site has a new article describing the ravages that multiple years of drought are taking on forests and trees in California.\u00a0 According to the article 120 million trees there are at risk of dying due to the severe drought.\u00a0 This is a huge concern because of its potential for making wildfires in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104","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=6104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6106,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions\/6106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}