{"id":8331,"date":"2016-09-13T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8331"},"modified":"2016-09-13T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T18:30:08","slug":"reforesting-with-longleaf-pine-after-hurricane-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/09\/reforesting-with-longleaf-pine-after-hurricane-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Reforesting with longleaf pine after hurricane damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USDA&#8217;s Southern Research Station posted an article discussing the replacement of loblolly pines with longleaf pines after damage by hurricanes or other strong wind events. \u00a0Longleaf pines are more resilient to wind and forest fire damage and are also less affected by pine beetles, but have been largely replaced by loblolly pines grown in plantations. \u00a0Since Hurricane Hermine caused some wind damage in the Southeast, land owners with significant tree loss might consider the switch. \u00a0You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srs.fs.usda.gov\/compass\/2016\/09\/08\/reforesting-with-longleaf-pine-after-hurricane-damage\/\">https:\/\/www.srs.fs.usda.gov\/compass\/2016\/09\/08\/reforesting-with-longleaf-pine-after-hurricane-damage\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8332\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/Boyer-long-leaf-pine-AL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8332\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/Boyer-long-leaf-pine-AL-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"Natural longleaf pine forest in Alabama.  Source: William Boyer, US Forest Service.\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/Boyer-long-leaf-pine-AL-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/Boyer-long-leaf-pine-AL-237x138.jpg 237w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/Boyer-long-leaf-pine-AL.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natural longleaf pine forest in Alabama. Source: William Boyer, US Forest Service.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USDA&#8217;s Southern Research Station posted an article discussing the replacement of loblolly pines with longleaf pines after damage by hurricanes or other strong wind events. \u00a0Longleaf pines are more resilient to wind and forest fire damage and are also less affected by pine beetles, but have been largely replaced by loblolly pines grown in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-forests","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331","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=8331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8333,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions\/8333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}