{"id":30,"date":"2015-12-15T22:53:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T22:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/sustainability\/afforestation\/"},"modified":"2020-02-10T10:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T18:44:07","slug":"afforestation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/sustainability\/afforestation\/","title":{"rendered":"Afforestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Afforestation<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blpi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Afforestation-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Afforestation\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>Early settlers to the Palouse subsisted on crops grown on the regions fertile soils.\u00a0 Often they had to clear timber from their homesteads to create farmland.\u00a0 Over time, they converted hundreds of thousands of acres of timberland into farms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This deforestation has resulted in impaired water quality in many of the area&#8217;s streams.\u00a0 For most of the streams, water quality can be recovered by afforestation, the act of reclaiming farmland by planting trees.\u00a0 Over the past several years, Bennett Lumber has reclaimed over 2,000 acres of farmland.\u00a0 Eventually these lands will revert back to forests, with the same native flora and fauna found adjacent timberlands.<\/p>\n<h4>Sustainability Sections<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afforestation Early settlers to the Palouse subsisted on crops grown on the regions fertile soils.\u00a0 Often they had to clear timber from their homesteads to create farmland.\u00a0 Over time, they converted hundreds of thousands of acres of timberland into farms. This deforestation has resulted in impaired water quality in many of the area&#8217;s streams.\u00a0 For&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":341,"parent":28,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/461"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}