{"id":100416,"date":"2026-08-24T04:26:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wildfires-are-turning-forests-in-the-american-west-into-shrubland\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T04:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:26:43","slug":"wildfires-are-turning-forests-in-the-american-west-into-shrubland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wildfires-are-turning-forests-in-the-american-west-into-shrubland\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires Are Turning Forests in the American West Into Shrubland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs. Conditions \u201cjust aren\u2019t normal anymore,\u201d one researcher said.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/23\/climate\/wildfire-forest-loss-california-southwest.html\">NYT > Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs. Conditions \u201cjust aren\u2019t normal anymore,\u201d one researcher said. NYT > Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[258,13993,62,30363,187,157,8968],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}