{"id":41915,"date":"2016-06-11T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T21:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=41915"},"modified":"2016-06-11T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T21:45:38","slug":"slash-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=41915","title":{"rendered":"Slash. Gone."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moon of the Summer Solstice<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41829\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/slash-June-1-limbs.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41829\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41829\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/slash-June-1-limbs.jpg\" alt=\"Slash June 1 limbs\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slash June 1 limbs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The slash is gone. Chipped and carted away. We had two big days of chipping, one from work done last fall, this one from work done over the last three weeks. The bulk of the fire mitigation project is now over. The remaining logs will be stacked by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the branches off up to ten feet will happen this year, though I&#8217;m not certain yet whether I have to wait until fall to protect the tree&#8217;s health. We&#8217;ll mow\u00a0the fuel in the back so it doesn&#8217;t get higher than six inches, maybe two to three times, maybe a bit more if we continue to get rain. Screening all the vents and other openings in our house is another fillip, as is taking the few pine needles out of our gutters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41830\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/slash-June-1-treetops-and-limbs.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41830\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41830\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/slash-June-1-treetops-and-limbs.jpg\" alt=\"Slash June 1 treetops and limbs\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slash June 1 treetops and limbs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After the electricity production limitations of snow\u00a0and\u00a0gloomy skies comes pine pollen. This yellow maker of new pines\u00a0comes off the lodgepoles in wind driven clouds. And, it coats solar panels, reducing their effectiveness. It appears to pare\u00a0between 10 and 20% off their regular capacity. It rains tonight so I&#8217;m going to wait and see if that eliminates the effect. If not, up on the roof with a hose and spray nozzle.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it is 76\u00a0here today, the humidity is only 33%. But, it&#8217;s 92 in Denver. Gotta love the altitude effect on air temperature.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moon of the Summer Solstice The slash is gone. Chipped and carted away. We had two big days of chipping, one from work done &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=41915\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slash. Gone.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4314,4312,13,4317,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jefferson-county","category-mountains-2","category-our-land","category-shadow-mountain","category-weather-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41917,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41915\/revisions\/41917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}