{"id":1389,"date":"2017-11-13T16:16:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T22:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2017-12-29T16:35:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T22:35:35","slug":"gila-river-indian-community-to-drive-back-salt-cedar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"Gila River Indian Community to Drive Back Salt Cedar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/564392\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/prd-wret.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/assets\/palladium\/production\/s3fs-public\/styles\/full_width\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/wifl_habitat_upper_Gila_Box_hatten_Oct_2012_1.JPG?itok=7OUPj7uf\" width=\"232\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The upper Gila River. Photo by James Hatten, USGS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Gila River Indian Community Council in September approved plans to reclaim an 80- to 100-square-mile section of the Gila River and floodplain from invasive salt cedar, or tamarisk.<\/p>\n<p>Removing invasive salt cedar reduces the risk of wildfires, but it also offers a chance to restore native plants and wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/564392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gila River Indian Community to Restore River Habitat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gila River Indian Community Council in September approved plans to reclaim an 80- to 100-square-mile section of the Gila River and floodplain from invasive salt cedar, or tamarisk. Removing invasive salt cedar reduces the risk of wildfires, but it also offers a chance to restore native plants and wildlife. Read\/listen to my full story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1389\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gila River Indian Community to Drive Back Salt Cedar<\/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":[50,49],"tags":[1217,1312,611,1380,1379,1335],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geoscience","category-water-issues","tag-endangered-species","tag-gila-river","tag-invasive-species","tag-salt-cedar","tag-tamarisk","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","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=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}