{"id":7745,"date":"2016-07-27T11:19:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7745"},"modified":"2016-07-27T11:19:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:19:48","slug":"bourbon-demand-putting-pressure-on-white-oak-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/07\/bourbon-demand-putting-pressure-on-white-oak-population\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bourbon demand putting pressure on white oak population&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>BNN.ca<\/em> had an interesting story earlier this week about increases in bourbon production in Kentucky and the negative impacts on the population of white oak trees. \u00a0By law, bourbon is produced by aging for at least two years in new charred white oak barrels, and the demand for bourbon is so strong that foresters are starting to be concerned about the impact on white oak populations in some parts of the country. \u00a0Changing climate could also affect where the white oak forests migrate in the future, which could affect production of bourbon. \u00a0You can watch the story at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnn.ca\/video\/bourbon-demand-putting-pressure-on-white-oak-population~916518\">https:\/\/www.bnn.ca\/video\/bourbon-demand-putting-pressure-on-white-oak-population~916518<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7746\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7746\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/Whisky_barrels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7746\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/Whisky_barrels-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"Source: John Haslam, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/Whisky_barrels-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/Whisky_barrels-215x138.jpg 215w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/Whisky_barrels.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: John Haslam, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BNN.ca had an interesting story earlier this week about increases in bourbon production in Kentucky and the negative impacts on the population of white oak trees. \u00a0By law, bourbon is produced by aging for at least two years in new charred white oak barrels, and the demand for bourbon is so strong that foresters are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7745","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\/7745","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=7745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7747,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions\/7747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}