{"id":940,"date":"2023-02-06T19:14:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/?p=940"},"modified":"2023-02-06T20:38:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T20:38:33","slug":"la-times-bighorn-bullet-trains-and-solar-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/2023\/02\/06\/la-times-bighorn-bullet-trains-and-solar-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: Bighorn, bullet trains, and solar farms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today the LA Times published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/environment\/story\/2023-02-06\/mojave-desert-solar-energy-project-angers-conservationists\">an article<\/a> regarding a proposed solar power installation in the Mojave Desert.\u00a0 Dr. Christina Aiello is quoted in the article, speaking about the challenges the installation would pose to maintaining desert bighorn connectivity.  <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2023\/02\/Ivanpah-Solar-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2023\/02\/Ivanpah-Solar-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-944\" width=\"592\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2023\/02\/Ivanpah-Solar-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2023\/02\/Ivanpah-Solar-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2023\/02\/Ivanpah-Solar-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2023\/02\/Ivanpah-Solar-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2023\/02\/Ivanpah-Solar-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An existing solar farm, as seen from the Ivanpah Mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the LA Times published an article regarding a proposed solar power installation in the Mojave Desert.\u00a0 Dr. Christina Aiello is quoted in the article, speaking about the challenges the installation would pose to maintaining desert bighorn connectivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}