{"id":1177,"date":"2011-05-31T11:14:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T15:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2011-05-31T11:14:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T15:14:29","slug":"landscapes-urban-and-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/05\/31\/landscapes-urban-and-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscapes: urban and wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two articles about trees in today&#8217;s NY Times caught my attention: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/31\/nyregion\/2-enthusiasts-compose-map-of-central-park-trees.html?nl=nyregion&amp;emc=ura1\">one<\/a> about the cataloging of the trees in Central Park (I was born across the street from Central Park, my first &#8220;green&#8221; playground), the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/31\/us\/31joplin.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=tha23\"> other<\/a> about the tornado damage to Joplin, Missouri&#8217;s trees. Both remind me of my love of trees. I&#8217;m a bona fide tree-hugger. In the article about Central Park&#8217;s trees, one of the men who has worked on the project advises us to &#8220;look up&#8221; through a tree&#8217;s umbrella, as well as &#8220;down,&#8221; in order to fully appreciate the tree.<\/p>\n<p>All of which brought me back to an essential regional project of a few years ago: <em>The Adirondack Atlas<\/em>, by Jerry Jenkins, with Andy Keal. The Atlas is a work of wonder, and science, and love. If you spend time or live in the Adirondacks, this is a must have volume. Jerry works with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcs.org\/saving-wild-places\/north-america\/adirondack-landscape-usa.aspx\">Wildlife Conservation Society<\/a>, and his atlas was published by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu\/spring-2004-catalog\/adirondack-atlas.html\"> Syracuse University Press<\/a>. You can also find it at booksellers and other shops across the Adirondack North Country.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wonder if my love of the rural life began as a small child lying under a maple or sycamore inside the stone wall of the west 106th Street entrance to Central Park. Oh, and one other odd connection between my childhood hometown and my adult &#8220;hometown&#8221;&#8211;the north country: Frederick Law Olmsted was one of Central Park&#8217;s designers, and he designed the grounds of the NYS Zoo at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyszoo.org\/\">Thompson Park <\/a>in Watertown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two articles about trees in today&#8217;s NY Times caught my attention: one about the cataloging [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6112,6110,6111,1284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}