{"id":1158,"date":"2017-04-27T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T23:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2018-07-05T14:58:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T19:58:59","slug":"plan-to-help-central-arizona-lake-fish-bounce-back-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"Plan to Help Fish in Central Arizona Lakes Gets Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/466418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/kjzz.org\/sites\/default\/files\/field\/image\/DSC_3919-2.jpg.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by George Andrejko\/AZGFD.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Arizona Game and Fish Department has begun dropping fake plants and other habitat into Roosevelt Lake. Widely varying lake levels at Roosevelt pose problems for natural vegetation.<\/p>\n<p>The work is part of a larger plan, the Tonto National Forest Lakes Habitat Improvement Project, which seeks to help bass and crappie bounce back and boost the sustainability \u2014 and fishing prospects \u2014 of Salt River reservoirs and Bartlett Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/466418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arizona Game and Fish Installs Artificial Fish Habitat in Roosevelt Lake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Game and Fish Department has begun dropping fake plants and other habitat into Roosevelt Lake. Widely varying lake levels at Roosevelt pose problems for natural vegetation. The work is part of a larger plan, the Tonto National Forest Lakes Habitat Improvement Project, which seeks to help bass and crappie bounce back and boost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plan to Help Fish in Central Arizona Lakes Gets Underway<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,3,32,13,49],"tags":[1237,1230,1240,1234,1238,72,1235,25,1236,1239,1241,1207,1242,51],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing","category-science","category-sports","category-technology","category-water-issues","tag-apache-lake","tag-arizona-game-and-fish-department","tag-bartlett-lake","tag-bass","tag-canyon-lake","tag-climate-change","tag-crappie","tag-nature","tag-roosevelt-lake","tag-saguaro-lake","tag-salt-river","tag-shad","tag-verde-river","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}