{"id":6963,"date":"2016-05-06T10:50:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T14:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2016-05-06T10:50:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T14:50:18","slug":"the-forest-and-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/the-forest-and-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"The forest and the trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Columbia Metropolitan<\/em> magazine posted a story recently on the importance of the timber industry to South Carolina. \u00a0Did you know that timber is SC&#8217;s top crop? \u00a0Forest product industries now have an estimated economic impact of more than $18 billion in the state, according to the South Carolina Forestry Commission, and the annual value of harvested trees alone is $759 million. \u00a0You can read more statistics on this at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/columbiametro.com\/Columbia-Metro\/May-2016\/The-Timber-Industry\/\">https:\/\/columbiametro.com\/Columbia-Metro\/May-2016\/The-Timber-Industry\/<\/a>. \u00a0This industry is expected to grow (literally and figuratively) in the coming years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6964\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Pine_plantation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6964\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Pine_plantation-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Pine_plantation-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Pine_plantation-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Pine_plantation.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia Metropolitan magazine posted a story recently on the importance of the timber industry to South Carolina. \u00a0Did you know that timber is SC&#8217;s top crop? \u00a0Forest product industries now have an estimated economic impact of more than $18 billion in the state, according to the South Carolina Forestry Commission, and the annual value of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6963","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\/6963","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=6963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6965,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions\/6965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}