{"id":1367,"date":"2011-06-26T13:49:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T19:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2011-06-26T13:49:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T19:49:03","slug":"changing-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/2011\/06\/26\/changing-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have vague memories of learning about forest cycles in grade school. They involved deciduous and coniferous trees, forest fires, and were probably grossly inaccurate. Is this little poplar sapling the beginning of change in this stand of black spruce? It seemed so full of life in a dark and dying forest.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have vague memories of learning about forest cycles in grade school. They involved deciduous and coniferous trees, forest fires, and were probably grossly inaccurate. Is this little poplar sapling the beginning of change in this stand of black spruce? It seemed so full of life in a dark and dying forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,87],"tags":[128,188,187,183,189,186,184,144,185,193,192,190,194,191,145],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forest-2","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-bellis-lake","tag-black-spruce","tag-coniferous-trees","tag-deciduous-and-coniferous-trees","tag-environment","tag-forest-cycles","tag-forest-fires","tag-forests","tag-little-poplar","tag-plant","tag-poplar","tag-sapling","tag-spruce","tag-stand","tag-tree"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t