{"id":2836,"date":"2023-11-24T00:46:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T00:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2023-12-22T02:33:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T02:33:37","slug":"would-thinning-areas-where-harvesting-isnt-allowed-as-advocated-by-forest-nova-scotia-reduce-wildfire-risk-23nov2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/2023\/11\/24\/would-thinning-areas-where-harvesting-isnt-allowed-as-advocated-by-forest-nova-scotia-reduce-wildfire-risk-23nov2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Would &#8220;thinning areas where harvesting isn\u2019t allowed&#8221; as advocated by Forest Nova Scotia reduce wildfire risk? 23Nov2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_2837\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BurntForestryLand27Sep2023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2837\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2837\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BurntForestryLand27Sep2023-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BurntForestryLand27Sep2023-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BurntForestryLand27Sep2023-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BurntForestryLand27Sep2023-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BurntForestryLand27Sep2023.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>An example of forested land in NS that burned in late May 2023  viewed on Sep 27, 2023<\/strong>.\u00a0 This site is a managed conifer stand, ~ 30 years old. New, post-fire growth is mostly aspen and raspberry. According to Helen Whitman, \u201cThose [Nova Scotia] fires burned in conifer-dominated areas&#8221;\u00a0 (Photo by David P)<br \/><em>Click on image for larger version<\/em><\/p><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forestns.ca\/\">Forest Nova Scotia<\/a>, &#8220;the largest organization of forest interests in the province of Nova Scotia, on the East coast of Canada&#8221; says it would.<\/p>\n<p>In recent blog posts, the organization also maintains that we are \u201cworsening climate change and increasing wildfire risk by protecting too much land\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I am not so sure, but I would like to see people more knowledgable than myself on such matters, weigh in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/hrm-forest-fire\/forest-ns-on-wildfires\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forest Nova Scotia, &#8220;the largest organization of forest interests in the province of Nova Scotia, on the East coast of Canada&#8221; says it would. In recent blog posts, the organization also maintains that we are \u201cworsening climate change and increasing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/2023\/11\/24\/would-thinning-areas-where-harvesting-isnt-allowed-as-advocated-by-forest-nova-scotia-reduce-wildfire-risk-23nov2023\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire","category-forestry-in-nova-scotia","category-triad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3265,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/3265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}