{"id":4439,"date":"2011-07-05T15:27:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T19:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2011-08-09T15:09:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:09:22","slug":"a-big-nasty-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/07\/05\/a-big-nasty-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"A big, nasty plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s another invader to boot. The New York conservation department made headlines today with its war on giant hogweed.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dec.ny.gov\/animals\/39809.html\">DEC website<\/a> shouts Do Not Touch This Plant! its sap can cause permanent scarring and blindness.\u00a0 And it IS big &#8212; bigger than you. Fifteen feet tall or more. It&#8217;s a member of the carrot family, presumably a cousin of wild parsnip, which now crowds our roadsides with its yellow queen anne&#8217;s lace-like blossoms. ( Don&#8217;t touch it either.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4440\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4440\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/07\/05\/a-big-nasty-plant\/olympus-digital-camera-2\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4440\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4440\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/07\/hogweedDEC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/07\/hogweedDEC.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/07\/hogweedDEC-150x125.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NYSDEC.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The DEC has a hotline for people who think they&#8217;ve identified the plant: 845-256-3111. No one is answering just now, and their mailbox is full. No wonder.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a map of known giant hogweed patches\u00a0 at the DEC page too. Mercifully, most of our listening area appears to be free of it for now, but Lewis and Jefferson counties apparently have infestations. The DEC says it&#8217;ll send a crew to control the invasive plant.<\/p>\n<p>Remember: DON&#8217;T TOUCH!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s another invader to boot. The New York conservation department made headlines today with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}