{"id":24569,"date":"2016-05-27T16:28:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T21:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=24569"},"modified":"2016-06-02T09:41:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T14:41:43","slug":"happy-little-trees-sustainability-office-plants-donated-trees-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/27\/happy-little-trees-sustainability-office-plants-donated-trees-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Little Trees: Sustainability Office Plants Donated Trees on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spring of 2015, Bemidji-area tree farmer Ron Koetter visited Bemidji State University&rsquo;s Sustainability Office with a proposition that Erika Bailey-Johnson, BSU&rsquo;s sustainability coordinator, couldn&rsquo;t refuse.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He just came into the Sustainability Office and said he wanted to give us some trees,&rdquo; Bailey-Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>It was an offer she immediately accepted, and on May 27, Bailey-Johnson and helpers from the Sustainability Office planted 16 trees from that donation near four buildings across campus.<\/p>\n<p>Locations for the plantings were gathered from campus feedback and input from campus grounds supervisors. Bailey-Johnson, along with Jordan Morgan, a senior in environmental studies and sociology from St. Peter, Minn., and Genise Schuette from the BSU admissions office, planted the trees on campus with assistance from several others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spring of 2015, Bemidji-area tree farmer Ron Ketter visited Bemidji State University\u2019s Sustainability Office with a proposition that Erika Bailey-Johnson, BSU\u2019s sustainability coordinator, couldn\u2019t refuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[872,953,25,20,952],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-mybsu","category-people","category-top-story","category-videos","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24590,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24569\/revisions\/24590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}