{"id":1238,"date":"2010-12-02T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2010-12-02T07:43:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T11:43:12","slug":"clearcutting-to-be-slashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"Clearcutting to be slashed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/posts\/2010\/dnr10\/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"forest\" \/>On Dec 1, the N.S. Government released a Policy Framework for its Natural Resources Strategy which includes a directive to \u201creduce the proportion of wood harvested by the clear cut method to no more than 50% of all forested lands over a five-year period.\u201d  (Clearcutting has averaged over 520 km2 a year over the past decade.) Another  directive:  \u201cPublic funds will not be directed to herbicide spraying for forestry\u201d. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.ns.ca\/natr\/strategy2010\/framework-update.asp\">Read DNR Update<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Dec 1, the N.S. Government released a Policy Framework for its Natural Resources Strategy which includes a directive to \u201creduce the proportion of wood harvested by the clear cut method to no more than 50% of all forested lands &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=1238\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}