{"id":3257,"date":"2016-10-27T15:49:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T22:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2016-10-27T15:49:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T22:49:26","slug":"how-a-beer-maker-and-a-bottled-water-company-want-to-save-sierra-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3257","title":{"rendered":"How a beer maker and a bottled water company want to save Sierra forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California\u2019s forests are in crisis. A lethal combination of drought, wildfires, warmer temperatures and pests has destroyed 66 million trees in the past six years.<\/p>\n<p>Restoring our forests won\u2019t be easy. Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature recognized the importance and magnitude of the task by allocating $40 million in cap-and-trade funds. At the same time, President Barack Obama visited Lake Tahoe to announce $29.5 million to improve forest health and decrease the threat of catastrophic wildfires.<\/p>\n<div id=\"related-gallery\" class=\"reorder_story-target_2 reorder\"><\/div>\n<p>They\u2019re prioritizing these investments because they know that California\u2019s forests are critical to our water supply. Forests help reduce erosion and recharge aquifers.<\/p>\n<p>Government funding is vital, but it\u2019s not enough. We need innovative thinking and support from private partners with resources and expertise, such as a recently launched effort in the Sierra Nevada, one of the most important sources of water for drought-stricken California.<\/p>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/soapbox\/article110738087.html#storylink=cpy\">SacBee.com <\/a>&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California\u2019s forests are in crisis. A lethal combination of drought, wildfires, warmer temperatures and pests has destroyed 66 million trees in the past six years. Restoring our forests won\u2019t be easy. Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature recognized the importance and magnitude of the task by allocating $40 million in cap-and-trade funds. At the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How a beer maker and a bottled water company want to save Sierra forests<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fish","category-safety","category-water","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3258,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}