{"id":11130,"date":"2023-07-07T11:48:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T11:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11130"},"modified":"2023-07-07T11:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T11:48:04","slug":"new-trees-are-no-substitute-for-old-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11130","title":{"rendered":"New Trees Are No Substitute for Old Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;When a forest burns, carbon storage is diminished and carbon dioxide is released adding to the concentration of greenhouse gases that are warming Earth\u2019s atmosphere. When forests regrow, they can again absorb carbon from the atmosphere, but it takes a long time \u2014 many decades. In the meantime, such a cycle would almost certainly produce more wildfires and could be exacerbated by increased deforestation and inappropriate forest management.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/06\/11\/to-fight-wildfire-our-forests-need-to-grow-old-00101360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/06\/11\/to-fight-wildfire-our-forests-need-to-grow-old-00101360<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When a forest burns, carbon storage is diminished and carbon dioxide is released adding to the concentration of greenhouse gases that are warming Earth\u2019s atmosphere. When forests regrow, they can again absorb carbon from the atmosphere, but it takes a long time \u2014 many decades. In the meantime, such a cycle would almost certainly produce more wildfires and could be exacerbated by increased deforestation and inappropriate forest management.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105,103,104,102],"class_list":["post-11130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-global-warming","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11131,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130\/revisions\/11131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}