{"id":1465,"date":"2015-06-01T02:14:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T02:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2015-06-01T02:26:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T02:26:42","slug":"bringing-back-the-brooks-a-revival-of-the-souths-trout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=1465","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Back the Brooks &#8211; A Revival of the South&#8217;s Trout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/89307424\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1469\" src=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BBbrook1-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"BBbrook\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BBbrook1-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BBbrook1.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A short video of Sycamore Creek Brook Trout Restoration project in the Tellico watershed. <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/89307424\" target=\"_blank\">(Link)<\/a>\u00a0 This is a well done video\u00a0 that all of our members needs to see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe brook trout was native to not only the small headwater streams, but also to these larger rivers. We like to call it the jewel of the southern Appalachians,\u201d said Jim Herrig, a fisheries biologist on the Cherokee National Forest who provides the historical perspective. \u201cUnfortunately, because of activities that occurred back in the early 1900\u2032s \u2013 devastation logging, road building and fire \u2013 the brook trout was almost eliminated from the southern Appalachians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Good fishing &lt;((((&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Joe<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short video of Sycamore Creek Brook Trout Restoration project in the Tellico watershed. (Link)\u00a0 This is a well done video\u00a0 that all of our members needs to see. \u201cThe brook trout was native to not only the small headwater &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=1465\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}