{"id":2486,"date":"2014-06-30T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.sdps-bbs.com\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2025-08-04T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:00:41","slug":"keep-connected-with-our-natural-systems-urban-woodlots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/keep-connected-with-our-natural-systems-urban-woodlots\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Connected With Our Natural Systems, Urban Woodlots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Family\u200bWoodlots are dynamic, vital ecosystems in the urban and suburban landscapes of the Midwest. People own these small wooded lots in urbanized areas for a variety of reasons: timber production, firewood production, recreation, wildlife habitat, aesthetics and alternative forest products. Many owners who keep and nurture these natural areas are motivated by powerful, non-economic motives based primarily on aesthetics and environmental protection.<\/p>\n

This new Purdue Extension publication titled Indiana’s Urban Woodlots <\/a>is a great way to aid you in\u00a0a management plan and build your knowledge of what trees can do for you and the environment. This 24-page booklet\u00a0covers benefits of trees, laws and zoning, stewardship planning, management, planting and renewal, and more.<\/p>\n

View The Education Store<\/a> for this and other Purdue Extension publications. Just type keywords in the search field to find the resources you need.<\/p>\n

Lindsey Purcell, Urban Forestry Specialist
\nDepartment of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University<\/p>\n

Lenny Farlee, Sustaining Hardwood Extension Specialist
\nHardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center<\/a> (HTIRC)
\nDepartment of Forestry and\u00a0Natural Resources, Purdue University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u200bWoodlots are dynamic, vital ecosystems in the urban and suburban landscapes of the Midwest. People own these small wooded lots in urbanized areas for a variety of reasons: timber production, firewood production, recreation, wildlife habitat, aesthetics and alternative forest products. Many owners who keep and nurture these natural areas are motivated by powerful, non-economic motives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,45],"tags":[60,63],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forestry","category-howto","tag-forestry","tag-how-to","audience-for-enthusiasts","audience-for-homeowners","audience-for-landowners","audience-for-professionals"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34258,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/34258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}