{"id":3313,"date":"2016-03-06T06:27:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T10:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2016-03-06T06:27:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T10:27:14","slug":"give-our-forests-back-to-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3313","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Give our forests back to the people&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So goes the headline for an op-ed by HFN member and Colin Stewart Conservation Award winner <a href=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/posts\/2012\/BobBancroft\/index.html\">Bob Bancroft<\/a> in today&#8217;s CH. &#8220;Centuries ago, Maritime forests loomed over freshwater shores; tall, vibrant, thick and strong. Early European settlers grumbled about spending dismal days in forests with sunlight cut off by thick overhead canopies of leaves and needles&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/opinion\/1346864-give-our-forests-back-to-the-people\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So goes the headline for an op-ed by HFN member and Colin Stewart Conservation Award winner Bob Bancroft in today&#8217;s CH. &#8220;Centuries ago, Maritime forests loomed over freshwater shores; tall, vibrant, thick and strong. Early European settlers grumbled about spending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3313\">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\/3313"}],"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=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3314,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions\/3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}