{"id":326,"date":"2013-08-29T11:47:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/trees\/?page_id=326"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:34:52","slug":"paper-or-canoe-birch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/paper-or-canoe-birch\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper or Canoe Birch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEPA2_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-468 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEPA2_lg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Paper or Canoe Birch\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEPA2_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEPA2_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEPA1_lg1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-467 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEPA1_lg1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Paper or Canoe Birch\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEPA1_lg1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEPA1_lg1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This tree is found across Canada and the most northern parts of the U.S., but its native range only drops into a small corner of NE Oregon. The trunk has thin, white bark and dark horizontal markings called &#8220;lenticels.&#8221; As the trunk expands, the bark peels away in paper-thin curls (but it should not be pulled off live trees). The tree is sometimes called &#8220;canoe birch&#8221; because the bark was used by Native Americans for building canoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tree is found across Canada and the most northern parts of the U.S., but its native range only drops into a small corner of NE Oregon. The trunk has thin, white bark and dark horizontal markings called &#8220;lenticels.&#8221; As&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/paper-or-canoe-birch\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Paper or Canoe Birch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"trees_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-326","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}