{"id":456,"date":"2018-01-10T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T14:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=456"},"modified":"2018-01-10T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T14:31:11","slug":"sierra-aids-in-forest-plan-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Aids In Forest Plan Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marian Ryan of Ancient Islands Sierra Club will be representing environmental interests on an advisory committee helping to recommend language to be included in  the 10-year update of the management plan for Lake Wales Ridge State Forest.\n<\/p>\n<p>The forest, which consists of four units stretching from Lake Arbuckle to Lake Kisimmee, is open to public recreation and contains a diverse list of flora and fauna, including some rare and endangered species.\n<\/p>\n<p>The plan will be the topic of a series of public meetings Wednesday, Jan. 16, including a public hearing at 11 a.m. at 7510 Red Grange Blvd., Indian Lake Estates. Indian  Lake Estates is a subdivision east of Lake Wales on State Road 60.\n<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshfromflorida.com\/News-Events\/Event-Calendar\/Meetings-and-Hearings\/Lake-Wales-Ridge-State-Forest-Plan-Advisory-Group\"> plan<\/a> includes  public recreation, land management, ecological restoration, rare species monitoring and forestry management.\n<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will offer a chance to make suggestions and to educate yourself about the forest, which is little known to many residents in the region. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marian Ryan of Ancient Islands Sierra Club will be representing environmental interests on an advisory committee helping to recommend language to be included in the 10-year update of the management plan for Lake Wales Ridge State Forest. The forest, which consists of four units stretching from Lake Arbuckle to Lake Kisimmee, is open to public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}