{"id":529339,"date":"2025-07-24T19:35:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atc25stg.wpenginepowered.com\/dying-trees\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:23:10","slug":"dying-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/news-stories\/dying-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are So Many Trees Dying Along the Appalachian Trail?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Pests, diseases, climate change, and human activity are all contributing to the loss of key species like oaks, hemlocks, and ash trees. These changes threaten ecosystems, wildlife, and hiker safety. Learn what\u2019s causing this shift, how the Appalachian Trail Conservancy is responding, and what you can do on and off the Trail to protect forest health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":66305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112,49,165],"class_list":["post-529339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservation-biodiversity","category-protect","category-stories","authors-amina-childs"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-12 07:25:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}