{"id":1398,"date":"2016-05-03T01:08:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T05:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2016-05-03T06:42:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T10:42:27","slug":"fire-hazard-in-the-backlands-is-highest-before-leaf-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1398","title":{"rendered":"Fire hazard in the Backlands is high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a good idea anytime to have campfires in the Backlands, but especially in early spring before the deciduous trees leaf-out and especially on Jack Pine barrens. <div id=\"attachment_1399\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/campfireInBacklands.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1399\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/campfireInBacklands-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Recent campfire in Jack Pine barrens\" width=\"150\"  class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent campfire on Jack Pine barrens<\/p><\/div>(The 2009 fire was on April 30\/May 1.) On top of that the Backlands are tinder dry right now, and the wetlands are low in water. <\/p>\n<p>A campfire such as that at left with no water nearby and on tinder-dry barrens could easily get out of control and endanger people hiking in the backlands.  <\/p>\n<p>There is really no safe way to have an open fire on such landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a good idea anytime to have campfires in the Backlands, but especially in early spring before the deciduous trees leaf-out and especially on Jack Pine barrens. (The 2009 fire was on April 30\/May 1.) On top of that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1398\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}