{"id":8767,"date":"2026-10-20T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8767"},"modified":"2026-10-20T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:22:32","slug":"broom-crowberry-in-the-backlands-halifax-ns-was-severely-affected-by-the-2025-drought-20oct2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8767","title":{"rendered":"Broom Crowberry in the Backlands (Halifax, NS) was severely affected by the 2025 drought 20Oct2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8768\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC00244_2500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8768\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8768\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC00244_2500-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC00244_2500-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC00244_2500-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC00244_2500-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC00244_2500-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC00244_2500-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>On an outcrop en route to &#8220;Piggy Mountain&#8221; on Sep. 22, 2025<\/strong>. The bronze-coloured low shrubs are Broom Crowberry. There are several patches of green Broom Crowberry.<br \/><em>Click on image for a larger version<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Summer \u201cbronzing\u201d of Broom Crowberry (Corema conradii), similar to the colour changes in winter, was common in the more sun-exposed, water stressed areas of the Jack Pine\/Broom Crowberry barrens on Piggy Mountain on Sept. 22, 2025; it was the driest summer on record over much of Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n<p>Revisiting sites with such plants on Oct 2, 2026 revealed the bronzed plants did not survive.<\/p>\n<p>If more such droughts and associated loss of Broom Crowberry occur in future, that could pose a new threat to the long term conservation of our \u201cglobally rare, nationally unique\u201d Jack Pine\/Broom Crowberry barrens.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?page_id=8658\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u201cbronzing\u201d of Broom Crowberry (Corema conradii), similar to the colour changes in winter, was common in the more sun-exposed, water stressed areas of the Jack Pine\/Broom Crowberry barrens on Piggy Mountain on Sept. 22, 2025; it was the driest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8767\">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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767","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=8767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8785,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767\/revisions\/8785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}