{"id":2603,"date":"2014-06-21T07:57:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T10:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2014-06-21T07:57:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T10:57:55","slug":"smu-plans-threaten-precious-woodland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=2603","title":{"rendered":"SMU plans threaten precious woodland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nswildflora.ca\/posts\/2014\/oakwoodland\/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"precious oak woodland in Halifax\" \/> According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smu.ca\/masterplan\/oaks.html\">SMU Campus Master Plan,<\/a> St. Mary&#8217;s University plans to construct a large buildling (the &#8220;Oaks Complex&#8221;) in the red oak woodland by The Oaks in south-end Halifax. This remnant natural woodland with elements of old growth forest (multiaged oaks, snags, decaying fallen trees) &#038; abundant witch hazel, indian pipe, mocassin orchid and bird life would be decimated&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/nswildflora.ca\/posts\/2014\/oakwoodland\/index.html\">View Photo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the SMU Campus Master Plan, St. Mary&#8217;s University plans to construct a large buildling (the &#8220;Oaks Complex&#8221;) in the red oak woodland by The Oaks in south-end Halifax. This remnant natural woodland with elements of old growth forest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=2603\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/2603"}],"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=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}