{"id":16062,"date":"2016-09-18T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=16062"},"modified":"2016-09-17T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T18:15:16","slug":"ecowatch-humboldt-countys-marijuana-boom-is-destroying-redwoods-and-killing-rare-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/18\/ecowatch-humboldt-countys-marijuana-boom-is-destroying-redwoods-and-killing-rare-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"(EcoWatch) Humboldt County&#8217;s Marijuana Boom Is Destroying Redwoods and Killing Rare Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: With California poised to fully legalize marijuana, a &#8220;green rush&#8221; has hit Humboldt as outsiders\u2014Bulgarians, Laotians, Texans\u2014flood into the county and set up industrial-scale marijuana farms. The environmental impact from more than 4,000 pot &#8220;gardens&#8221; is ravaging the redwood ecosystem that Humboldt environmentalists have spent decades fighting to save and restore. And not just in Humboldt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/humboldt-marijuana-1954674793.html\">Click here to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/humboldt-marijuana-1954674793.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16063\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/redwoodforests-e1474136102557.jpg\" alt=\"redwoodforests\" width=\"550\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: With California poised to fully legalize marijuana, a &#8220;green rush&#8221; has hit Humboldt as outsiders\u2014Bulgarians, Laotians, Texans\u2014flood into the county and set up industrial-scale marijuana farms. The environmental impact from more than 4,000 pot &#8220;gardens&#8221; is ravaging the redwood ecosystem that Humboldt environmentalists have spent decades fighting to save and restore. And not just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16064,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions\/16064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}