{"id":29105,"date":"2020-10-02T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=29105"},"modified":"2020-10-02T09:42:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:42:56","slug":"austin-peay-state-universitys-southeastern-grasslands-initiative-spotlighted-in-international-news-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2020\/10\/02\/austin-peay-state-universitys-southeastern-grasslands-initiative-spotlighted-in-international-news-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University\u2019s Southeastern Grasslands Initiative spotlighted in international news story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The Southeastern Grasslands Initiative \u2013 which has its headquarters at Austin Peay State University (APSU) \u2013 recently captured worldwide attention for its efforts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_435125\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-leads-national-conservation-effort-with-Southeastern-Grasslands-Initiative.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-435125\" class=\"wp-image-435125 size-medium\" title=\"APSU Associate Professor of Biology, Dr. Dwayne Estes, leads a tour through Baker Prairie Natural Area.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-leads-national-conservation-effort-with-Southeastern-Grasslands-Initiative-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"APSU Associate Professor of Biology, Dr. Dwayne Estes, leads a tour through Baker Prairie Natural Area.\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-435125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">APSU Associate Professor of Biology, Dr. Dwayne Estes, leads a tour through Baker Prairie Natural Area.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Associated Press reporter Travis Loller last week wrote a story titled \u201cEfforts Afoot to Save South\u2019s Disappearing Grasslands\u201d that celebrated the Southeastern Grasslands Initiative\u2019s work to restore thousands of acres of grasslands across the South.<\/p>\n<p>Media outlets across the world \u2013 including <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/environment\/efforts-afoot-souths-disappearing-grasslands-rcna128\" >NBC News<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/efforts-afoot-to-save-souths-disappearing-grasslands\/2020\/09\/20\/bf03532e-fb42-11ea-b0e4-350e4e60cc91_story.html\" >The Washington Post<\/a> \u2013 ran the story. NBC News also shared the news on several of its social media platforms, such as this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NBCNews\/posts\/4750787004941292\" >Facebook post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>APSU botany and ecology Professor Dr. Dwayne Estes is quoted in the story.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Southeastern Grasslands Initiative, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.segrasslands.org\" >www.segrasslands.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; The Southeastern Grasslands Initiative \u2013 which has its headquarters at Austin Peay State University (APSU) \u2013 recently captured worldwide attention for its efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,7464,262,512,825,9054,32061],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-7zr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29106,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29105\/revisions\/29106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}