{"id":6800,"date":"2017-08-10T20:26:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T20:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/11\/new-map-shows-upstate-land-in-critical-need-of-protection\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:57:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:57:45","slug":"new-map-shows-upstate-land-in-critical-need-of-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/new-map-shows-upstate-land-in-critical-need-of-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"New map shows Upstate land in critical need of protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathaniel Cary of <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/environment\/2017\/08\/09\/new-map-shows-upstate-land-critical-need-protection-conservationists-say\/550626001\/\">The Greenville News <\/a><\/strong><\/em>writes about a new project that aims to\u00a0protect water resources, natural habitat, wildlife and other resources in the Upstate.\u00a0Upstate Forever, together with Furman University, and funded by a grant from Pacolet Milliken, has\u00a0completed an interactive and multifaceted map which identifies land in 10 Upstate counties deemed most critical for protection from development.\u00a0The project was led by\u00a0John Quinn, Furman assistant professor of biology. The group plans to use the map to better target landowners to gauge their interest in protecting the land determined to be most at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathaniel Cary of The Greenville News writes about a new project that aims to\u00a0protect water resources, natural habitat, wildlife and other resources in the Upstate.\u00a0Upstate Forever, together with Furman University, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":17235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-biology","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}