{"id":31,"date":"2015-12-15T22:53:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T22:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/sustainability\/water-quality\/"},"modified":"2016-02-16T22:24:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T22:24:43","slug":"water-quality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/sustainability\/water-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n\t\tWater Quality<br \/>\n\t<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blpi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ezgif.com-optimize.gif\" alt=\"ezgif.com-optimize\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>Most of the\u00a0Idaho Forest Practices Act regulations relate to concerns about water quality.\u00a0 While some were enacted to protect forest and riparian areas, most cover proper road construction techniques, significantly reducing the major sources of sedimentation in forest streams.\u00a0 Regulations specifying the location and steepness of roads, the size and location of culverts, road construction, and surfacing specifications are designed to reduce or eliminate the delivery of sediment to the streams.\u00a0 Regulations governing the use of harvesting systems reduce the amount of road building and surface erosion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bennett Lumber&#8217;s forestry operators always exceed the Idaho Forest Practices standards.\u00a0 Our foresters use cable yarding systems and state-of-the-art mechanical harvest and forwarding systems to reduce the amount of road building needed to harvest our timber.\u00a0 We restrict road access during the off-season and seed the road surface with grasses to reduce surface erosion.<\/p>\n<h4>\n\t\tSustainability Sections<br \/>\n\t<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water Quality Most of the\u00a0Idaho Forest Practices Act regulations relate to concerns about water quality.\u00a0 While some were enacted to protect forest and riparian areas, most cover proper road construction techniques, significantly reducing the major sources of sedimentation in forest streams.\u00a0 Regulations specifying the location and steepness of roads, the size and location of culverts,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":13,"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-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/343"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blpi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}