{"id":34751,"date":"2015-08-26T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T18:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=34751"},"modified":"2015-08-28T14:16:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T19:16:34","slug":"ash-trees-being-removed-due-to-invasive-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/08\/ash-trees-being-removed-due-to-invasive-beetle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash trees being removed due to invasive beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34752\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ash-trees1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34752\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34752 \" title=\"ash-trees1\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ash-trees1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Contractors remove two Ash trees from the main campus Wednesday morning.\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contractors remove two Ash trees from the main campus Wednesday morning.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A number of dead and dying Ash trees are being removed from campus this week.<\/p>\n<p>The trees are infested with the Emerald Ash Borer, an invasive species that has killed millions of Ash trees in southwestern Ontario and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>John Dick, grounds manager for Brock University said approximately 100 trees have been removed from the campus since last Fall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been fairly lucky that there aren&#8217;t a lot of significant trees that were Ash,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said when trees are removed they are replaced, and then some.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did quite a bit of tree planting in the spring and we are going to do another round in the Fall,&#8221; Dick said.<\/p>\n<p>When possible please avoid the areas where trees are being downed and exercise caution when travelling around where crews are working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of dead and dying Ash trees are being removed from campus this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":34752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,3,1],"tags":[815,3277,3278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34751"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34754,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34751\/revisions\/34754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}