{"id":6863,"date":"2016-04-26T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6863"},"modified":"2016-04-26T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T17:45:09","slug":"will-americas-worst-wildfire-disaster-happen-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/04\/will-americas-worst-wildfire-disaster-happen-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Will America&#8217;s Worst Wildfire Disaster Happen in New Jersey?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rolling Stone<\/em> magazine had an excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/features\/will-americas-worst-wildfire-disaster-happen-in-new-jersey-20160420\">article<\/a> this week about the Pine Barrens in New Jersey and how they have the greatest potential for a forest fire catastrophe for anywhere in the United States. \u00a0Most people think of New Jersey as an urban area and don&#8217;t realize how much of the southern part of the state is covered with forests. \u00a0These forests are overgrown and thick with flammable fuel since natural forest fires have been suppressed there for decades. \u00a0If you are interested in forest health and wildfires, you will want to read this.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6864\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/Mullica_River_Pinelands_National_Reserve_New_Jersey_USA_2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6864\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/Mullica_River_Pinelands_National_Reserve_New_Jersey_USA_2010-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Mullica River, Pinelands National Preserve, New Jersey.  Photo \u00a9 Brian W. Schaller \/ License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0\" width=\"446\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/Mullica_River_Pinelands_National_Reserve_New_Jersey_USA_2010-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/Mullica_River_Pinelands_National_Reserve_New_Jersey_USA_2010-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/Mullica_River_Pinelands_National_Reserve_New_Jersey_USA_2010.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mullica River, Pinelands National Preserve, New Jersey. Photo \u00a9 Brian W. Schaller \/ License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling Stone magazine had an excellent article this week about the Pine Barrens in New Jersey and how they have the greatest potential for a forest fire catastrophe for anywhere in the United States. \u00a0Most people think of New Jersey as an urban area and don&#8217;t realize how much of the southern part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6863","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\/6863","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=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6865,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions\/6865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}