{"id":1989,"date":"2016-05-04T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2016-05-04T04:01:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T11:01:31","slug":"cecelia-daileys-article-on-the-plant-ecology-of-the-kiawah-spit-published-by-coastalcare-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/?p=1989","title":{"rendered":"Cecelia Dailey&#8217;s article on the plant ecology of the Kiawah Spit published by CoastalCare.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_1990\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/9x2016-3-11-IMG_5975-600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1990\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/9x2016-3-11-IMG_5975-600.jpg\" alt=\"Eroding beach on Captain Sams Spit, photograph by Cecelia Dailey\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/9x2016-3-11-IMG_5975-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/9x2016-3-11-IMG_5975-600-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eroding beach on Captain Sams Spit, photograph by Cecelia Dailey<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nRead the article <a href=\"http:\/\/coastalcare.org\/2016\/05\/captain-sams-spit-kiawah-island-by-cecelia-dailey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Captain Sams Spit, Kiawah Island<\/a> by Cecelia Dailey, composed in response to continued efforts of developers to build 50 houses on the 150-acre spit of sand. Under the tutelage of botanist Richard Porcher, Dailey challenges the current propaganda of developers who state that the beach is robust and accreting with substantial high land for development. Her photography and text show that the spit has a myriad of tidal lowland between dune ridges, especially important as habitat for migrating birds, and an eroding beach with no active dune building and beach plant communities. <a href=\"https:\/\/scelp.org\/projects\/view\/74\" target=\"_blank\">SCELP<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/coastalconservationleague.org\/projects\/captain-sams-spit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coastal Conservation League<\/a> have responded with enthusiasm to her fieldwork and new documentation of the volatile Captain Sams Spit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1994\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/17x2016-IMG_5118-600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/17x2016-IMG_5118-600.jpg\" alt=\"Lowlands between dune ridges flooded by high tide on Captain Sams Spit, photograph by Cecelia Dailey\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/17x2016-IMG_5118-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/17x2016-IMG_5118-600-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lowlands between dune ridges flooded by high tide on Captain Sams Spit, photograph by Cecelia Dailey<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1995\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/29x20110727-110727_mef_0062-600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1995\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/29x20110727-110727_mef_0062-600.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial photograph of Captain Sams Spit by Mary Edna Fraser\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/29x20110727-110727_mef_0062-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/29x20110727-110727_mef_0062-600-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial photograph of Captain Sams Spit and surroundings by Mary Edna Fraser<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the article Captain Sams Spit, Kiawah Island by Cecelia Dailey, composed in response to continued efforts of developers to build 50 houses on the 150-acre spit of sand. Under the tutelage of botanist Richard Porcher, Dailey challenges the current propaganda of developers who state that the beach is robust and accreting with substantial high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,139,6,24,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coast","category-flora-fauna","category-kiawahspit","category-south-carolina","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}