{"id":2,"date":"2013-12-04T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T17:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmhaynes\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2013-12-04T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T20:06:27","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmhaynes\/sample-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Potash brook watershed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmhaynes\/files\/2013\/12\/potash-brook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31 aligncenter\" alt=\"potash brook\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmhaynes\/files\/2013\/12\/potash-brook-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmhaynes\/files\/2013\/12\/potash-brook-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmhaynes\/files\/2013\/12\/potash-brook.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Potash brook watershed is a valuable and fragile ecosystem. \u00a0Human development and farming in a watershed will load the water sources nearby with excess nutrients, which in turn will change the ecology of the lake. \u00a0Having a healthy watershed will help add healthy inputs for aquatic species. \u00a0These species can be used both for recreational and commercial fishing. \u00a0Having a heavily disturbed watershed with inputs from local development can contribute to nutrient loading and unnatural algae growth which can disrupt oxygen availability to the local species. \u00a0Having an unhealthy watershed wont introduce invasive species but in this instance provides a habitable environment for them to thrive in and outcompete native species. \u00a0Keeping sources of pollution and limiting development on in this area will create a direct benefit for this ecosystem. \u00a0An interesting way to educate students at this site would be to have them take water quality measurments in the river and have them compare the data to ideal data for the watershed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Potash brook watershed is a valuable and fragile ecosystem. \u00a0Human development and farming in a watershed will load the water sources nearby with excess nutrients, which in turn will change the ecology of the lake. \u00a0Having a healthy watershed will help add healthy inputs for aquatic species. \u00a0These species can be used both for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2039,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmhaynes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmhaynes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmhaynes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmhaynes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmhaynes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmhaynes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmhaynes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bmhaynes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}