{"id":5326,"date":"2020-07-17T18:41:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T01:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/ses\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2020-07-19T13:57:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T20:57:54","slug":"forests-vs-meadows-restoration-of-hart-prairie-north-of-flagstaff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-earth-sustainability\/forests-vs-meadows-restoration-of-hart-prairie-north-of-flagstaff\/","title":{"rendered":"Forests vs. meadows: restoration of Hart Prairie north of Flagstaff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5387 size-portrait-image\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/ses\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/306\/1367_Grand_Canyon_20190716-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/306\/1367_Grand_Canyon_20190716-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/306\/1367_Grand_Canyon_20190716-150x225.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>SES hydrology Professor Abe Springer is collaborating with NAU Forestry faculty to study the impact of water use by encroaching trees and shrubs in meadow ecosystems surrounding Flagstaff. Changing vegetation means both changing habitat for wildlife and less water for springs and streams. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/arizona-environment\/2020\/07\/11\/hart-prairie-project-remove-trees-help-landscape\/5370297002\/?fbclid=IwAR2CiOamF-lTPZagciFHhm0Js4TPS2PhO4tjAHVrt4_VwsNSefagdQ72UWc\">Read more about restoration efforts at azcentral<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SES hydrology Professor Abe Springer is collaborating with NAU Forestry faculty to study the impact of water use by encroaching trees and shrubs in meadow ecosystems surrounding Flagstaff. Changing vegetation means both changing habitat for wildlife and less water for springs and streams. Read more about restoration efforts at azcentral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-research-in-the-news","category-water-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-earth-sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-earth-sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-earth-sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-earth-sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-earth-sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-earth-sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5398,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-earth-sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions\/5398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-earth-sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-earth-sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-earth-sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}