{"id":9229,"date":"2016-11-21T21:57:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T02:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9229"},"modified":"2016-11-21T21:57:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T02:57:58","slug":"drought-and-fires-affect-timber-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/11\/drought-and-fires-affect-timber-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought and fires affect Southeast timber industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em> posted a story today about the negative impacts of the exceptional Southeast drought on the timber industry in Alabama (although the comments are generally true for the rest of the Southeast as well). \u00a0It points out that the drought and fires will have take a severe toll on forests this year in lost productivity and lost trees. \u00a0The drought will also prevent new trees from being planted until soil moisture improves. \u00a0However, it has allowed foresters to harvest in areas that are normally too wet to get equipment into. \u00a0You can read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/southeastfarmpress.com\/orchard-crops\/timber-industry-burning-alabama-drought-hampering-future?NL=SEFP-01&amp;Issue=SEFP-01_20161121_SEFP-01_552&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_2_b&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000002518665&amp;utm_campaign=12563&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=868d1fc20a2b47b7a2e634288d48bb79\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3904\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Wildfire_in_the_Pacific_Northwest_8776249150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3904\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Wildfire_in_the_Pacific_Northwest_8776249150-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Bureau of Land Management \/ Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Wildfire_in_the_Pacific_Northwest_8776249150-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Wildfire_in_the_Pacific_Northwest_8776249150-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Wildfire_in_the_Pacific_Northwest_8776249150.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Bureau of Land Management \/ Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeast Farm Press posted a story today about the negative impacts of the exceptional Southeast drought on the timber industry in Alabama (although the comments are generally true for the rest of the Southeast as well). \u00a0It points out that the drought and fires will have take a severe toll on forests this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-forestry","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229","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=9229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9231,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229\/revisions\/9231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}