{"id":1444,"date":"2015-11-26T07:47:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T14:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2015-11-23T23:58:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T06:58:16","slug":"sierra-mclane-and-sally-aitken-in-the-walrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/2015\/11\/26\/sierra-mclane-and-sally-aitken-in-the-walrus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra McLane and Sally Aitken in The Walrus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/run-forest-run\/\">Aitken-ites in <em>The Walrus<\/em><\/a> talking whitebark pine and assisted migration.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[N]ear the end of McLane\u2019s whitebark planting trip in BC, it started to snow. Parked in whiteout conditions on a mountaintop, with no views to admire, McLane pulled a fourth layer over her down coat, grabbed her fingerless gloves, and braced herself for the whipping wind. Each day, as the temperature dropped, her unplanted seedlings became less likely to make it through the winter, leaving them in as much danger as ever and us no wiser for it. Crawling through ankle-deep snow, McLane spent her days scraping out holes with a tent peg and pushing the sprouts into the frozen dirt with her bare, numb fingers. Then, as now, the experiments had to go on. \u201cWe\u2019re in a race against time,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aitken-ites in The Walrus talking whitebark pine and assisted migration. [N]ear the end of McLane\u2019s whitebark planting trip in BC, it started to snow. Parked in whiteout conditions on a mountaintop, with no views to admire, McLane pulled a fourth layer over her down coat, grabbed her fingerless gloves, and braced herself for the whipping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747536,4899],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-common-garden","category-outreach","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}