{"id":117630,"date":"2014-09-24T21:01:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T03:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/all-tree-needle-loss-not-the-same\/"},"modified":"2014-09-24T21:01:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T03:01:37","slug":"all-tree-needle-loss-not-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/all-tree-needle-loss-not-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"All tree-needle loss not the same"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Evergreens that are beginning to shed needles look different than beetle-killed conifers, the Colorado State Forest Service said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The difference can be seen in conifers in La Plata, Archuleta, San Juan, Dolores and Montezuma counties.<\/p>\n<p>Needles on beetle-infested trees typically change color throughout the entire tree. The color goes from an off-green to reddish-orange. The trees also will show other signs of beetle attack, such as popcorn-shaped pitch tubes on the trunk and boring dust at the base of the tree.<\/p>\n<p>Needles on evergreens not infested by beetles commonly shed needles on the lower portion of the crown or those closest to the trunk.<\/p>\n<p>The needles typically turn yellow, then reddish-brown before falling. Trees stressed by drought or root damage may shed more needles to keep the tree in balance with its root system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:daler@durangoherald.com\">daler@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evergreens that are beginning to shed needles look different than beetle-killed conifers, the Colorado State Forest Service said in a statement. The difference can be seen in conifers in La Plata, Archuleta, San Juan, Dolores and Montezuma counties. Needles on beetle-infested trees typically change color throughout the entire tree. The color goes from an off-green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6363],"tags":[188,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-117630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ds-news","tag-dolores-star","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117630"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=117630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}