{"id":93143,"date":"2024-01-22T09:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&#038;p=93143"},"modified":"2024-01-19T11:55:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T16:55:48","slug":"burning-fields-brings-new-life-to-raleigh-ecostation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/burning-fields-brings-new-life-to-raleigh-ecostation\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning fields brings new life to Raleigh ecostation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- 16:9 aspect ratio --><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PGZwNhfxmrw?si=eTbjgx2jzj4hoGhk&amp;start=780\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!-- 16:9 aspect ratio --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"cleardiv\" \/>\n<p>RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) \u2014 Fields at the Prairie Ridge Ecostation in Raleigh were on fire Thursday, but for good reason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s used as a management technique to take what\u2019s above the ground, burn it back,\u201d explains Emma Blackford, head of the Ecostation. \u201cIt exposes seeds and it adds nutrients to the soil through the ash that\u2019s produced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She says that burning done in this way is restorative. Everything on top of the ground is dead, but below the surface, roots and seeds and alive and well, waiting for the right time to thrive.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/news\/local-news\/wake-county-news\/burning-fields-brings-new-life-to-raleigh-ecostation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the entire story on WNCN<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr class=\"cleardiv\" \/>\n<p><em>For more information about our upcoming activities, conservation news and groundbreaking research, follow @NaturalSciences on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/naturalsciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/naturalsciences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/naturalsciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93147,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/93143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/93143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}