{"id":108908,"date":"2022-06-10T13:44:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T20:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=108908"},"modified":"2022-06-10T13:44:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T20:44:55","slug":"watch-group-urges-residents-to-help-protect-joshua-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2022\/06\/10\/watch-group-urges-residents-to-help-protect-joshua-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Group urges residents to help protect Joshua trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Joshua-trees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108911\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Joshua-trees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Joshua-trees.jpg 960w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Joshua-trees-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Joshua-trees-768x474.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Antelope Valley Conservancy<\/strong> is urging local residents to lend their support to the group&#8217;s effort to protect Joshua trees. On Wednesday, June 15, the California Fish &amp; Game Commission will vote on whether to list the western Joshua tree for protection under the C<em>alifornia Endangered Species Act<\/em>. The AV Conservancy is asking residents to to do their part to protect Joshua trees by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Signing the AV Conservancy&#8217;s petition at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/protect-the-joshua-trees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/protect-the-joshua-trees<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Emailing public comments to the California Fish &amp; Game Commission at fgc@fgc.ca.gov.<\/li>\n<li>Attending the Commission&#8217;s June 15 meeting, virtually. <a href=\"https:\/\/nrm.dfg.ca.gov\/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=201927&amp;inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Find out how here.]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View the AV Conservancy&#8217;s video news release below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/quj_7wUvIgA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Antelope Valley Conservancy is urging local residents to lend their support to the group&#8217;s effort to protect Joshua trees. On Wednesday, June 15, the California Fish &amp; Game Commission will vote on whether to list the western Joshua tree for protection under the California Endangered Species Act. The AV Conservancy is asking residents to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108912,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108908\/revisions\/108912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}