{"id":81439,"date":"2018-08-07T10:42:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T17:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/let-slow-growth-forests-recover-before-logging-once-more"},"modified":"2018-08-10T07:08:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T14:08:28","slug":"let-slow-growth-forests-recover-before-logging-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/let-slow-growth-forests-recover-before-logging-once-more","title":{"rendered":"Let slow-growth forests recover before logging once more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/let-slow-growth-forests-recover-before-logging-once-more.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Loggers need to control their appetite for slow-growing trees to spare the Amazon rainforest from deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>A new study by Ph.D. student J. Aaron Hogan points to changes in tree composition in a long-term study site in French Guiana to sound the alarm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re approaching a threshold where we\u2019re forced to make some difficult decisions,\u201d Hogan said. \u201cDo we feed into demand for these tropical hardwoods? Or do we stick to our guns and say you can\u2019t log any more until this stand is regenerated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-slow-growth-forests-recover.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-slow-growth-forests-recover.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loggers need to control their appetite for slow-growing trees to spare the Amazon rainforest from deforestation. A new study by Ph.D. student J. Aaron Hogan points to changes in tree composition in a long-term study site in French Guiana to sound the alarm. \u201cWe\u2019re approaching a threshold where we\u2019re forced to make some difficult decisions,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81557,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81439\/revisions\/81557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}