{"id":9986,"date":"2017-02-05T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T16:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9986"},"modified":"2017-02-05T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T16:07:03","slug":"a-secret-forest-grew-for-millennia-in-north-america-without-anyone-noticing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/a-secret-forest-grew-for-millennia-in-north-america-without-anyone-noticing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Secret Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Atlas Obscura<\/em> had a fascinating story last year about some centuries-old\u00a0trees found in the most unexpected place: \u00a0growing out of cliffs along the Niagara escarpment. \u00a0Because these trees don&#8217;t get very large due to their extreme exposure and difficult growing conditions, no one knew how old the trees were until\u00a0a Canadian researcher collected tree cores and determined that these trees had been growing for hundreds of years, giving us a very long picture of the climate in that area. \u00a0You can read more about the trees and the research and see pictures of some of the trees at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/a-secret-forest-grew-for-millennia-in-north-america-without-anyone-noticing\">https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/a-secret-forest-grew-for-millennia-in-north-america-without-anyone-noticing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9987\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/mosquito-tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9987\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/mosquito-tree-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/mosquito-tree-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/mosquito-tree-119x138.jpg 119w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/mosquito-tree.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mosquito tree is more than 500 years old. (Photo: Peter Kelly)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlas Obscura had a fascinating story last year about some centuries-old\u00a0trees found in the most unexpected place: \u00a0growing out of cliffs along the Niagara escarpment. \u00a0Because these trees don&#8217;t get very large due to their extreme exposure and difficult growing conditions, no one knew how old the trees were until\u00a0a Canadian researcher collected tree cores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986","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=9986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9988,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions\/9988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}