{"id":874,"date":"2012-07-19T20:53:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T01:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2012-07-19T20:53:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T01:53:27","slug":"vegetation-projects-put-native-plants-in-tx-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/19\/vegetation-projects-put-native-plants-in-tx-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"VEGETATION PROJECTS PUT NATIVE PLANTS IN TX LAKES &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real lakes are not built overnight.\u00a0 It takes centuries of plants &amp; trees living &amp; dying to create the perfect aquatic environment.\u00a0 Unfortunately, most lakes in TX were built overnight as part of the reservoir building boom of the 1950s thru the 1970s.\u00a0 Instead of carved out of the soil by years of erosion or geographical depressions,\u00a0 our lakes were created by bulldozers that pushed away trees &amp; scraped away the dirt.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t a sterile environment, but lacked the natural native aquatic vegetation that helps improve water quality &amp; create better fish habitat.\u00a0 Texas Parks &amp; Wildlife is actively planting lake vegetation along shorelines &amp; a recent planting is at Lake Palestine near Tyler.\u00a0\u00a0 On Palestine water willow will be planted as it establishs better in the hard clay substrate at the southern end of the reservoir.\u00a0 30 cages will be established over a mile of shoreline.\u00a0 These plants produce seeds &amp; cuttings to be carried further.\u00a0 Bellwood Lake in Tyler did plantings &amp; choked out the hydrilla.\u00a0 Much interest in these programs!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real lakes are not built overnight.\u00a0 It takes centuries of plants &amp; trees living &amp; dying to create the perfect aquatic environment.\u00a0 Unfortunately, most lakes in TX were built overnight as part of the reservoir building boom of the 1950s thru the 1970s.\u00a0 Instead of carved out of the soil by years of erosion or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}