{"id":21924,"date":"2012-12-05T14:28:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T20:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=21924"},"modified":"2012-12-05T14:28:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T20:28:23","slug":"planting-more-hope-for-texas-wildfire-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/12\/05\/planting-more-hope-for-texas-wildfire-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting More Hope for Texas Wildfire Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21937\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/12\/05\/planting-more-hope-for-texas-wildfire-victims\/wildfires-continue-to-burn-in-texas-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21937\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21937\" title=\"Wildfires Continue To Burn In Texas\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/12\/112616261-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/12\/112616261-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/12\/112616261.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Tom Pennington\/Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over 4 million acres burned in Texas wildfires last year, the worst in the state&#39;s history. In this photo, Texas State Troopers Aaron Lewis and Greg Sullivan open a gate to allow livestock to escape a running wildfire on April 19, 2011 in Graford, Texas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Historic wildfires <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/08\/27\/looking-back-on-the-labor-day-wildfires\/\" target=\"_blank\">blazed through Texas<\/a> last year, burning over 4 million acres and destroying nearly 3,000 homes throughout the state. Over a year later, affected areas are slowly recovering. Donations of <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/11\/26\/please-welcome-the-lost-pines-back-to-bastrop\/\">seedlings<\/a>\u00a0and trees are part of the recovery effort, helping re-grow the area\u2019s lost foliage.<\/p>\n<p>Texas A&amp;M Forest Service with Texas Garden Clubs is joining the effort to replenish the tree population west of Fort Worth. On December 15<span style=\"font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 0px;\">,<\/span>\u00a0they will be<a href=\"http:\/\/txforestservice.tamu.edu\/main\/popup.aspx?id=16787\" target=\"_blank\"> handing out a hundred trees<\/a> to the affected Possum Kingdom-area community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to give some hope and help them re-green the area surrounding their homes,\u201d Forester Courtney Blevins says in a press release.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Locals will also receive assistance in their replanting efforts. Volunteers have offered to help plant the donated trees. They will assist in planting the trees and use\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/texasforestservice.tamu.edu\/uploadedFiles\/FRP\/New_-_Mitigation\/Unsafe_Debris_Burning\/EDITED%202012firelandscape.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ample spacing<\/a> to reduce the risk of spreading future wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>A variety of live oak, lacey oak, and cedar elms will be donated. The foresters chose oaks and elms because they can weather the hot and dry conditions better than other species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic wildfires blazed through Texas last year, burning over 4 million acres and destroying nearly 3,000 homes throughout the state. Over a year later, affected areas are slowly recovering. Donations of seedlings\u00a0and trees are part of the recovery effort, helping re-grow the area\u2019s lost foliage. Texas A&amp;M Forest Service with Texas Garden Clubs is joining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":21937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}