{"id":17514,"date":"2016-08-26T15:27:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T15:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=17514"},"modified":"2016-08-26T15:27:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T15:27:28","slug":"botany-mast-and-masting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/botany-mast-and-masting\/","title":{"rendered":"Botany:  mast and masting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor shares a couple of terms he recently learned.<\/h1>\n<p>In a forest setting, <em>mast<\/em> can refer to food dropped from trees and bushes, such as acorns, nuts, or berries.<\/p>\n<p><em>Masting<\/em> refers to the trees&#8217; production of the mast, but can specifically mean their coordinated production of bumper crops some years, thin ones other years.<\/p>\n<p>Mast and masting are interesting to the botanist, but perhaps even more so to the sportsman, since produce from the trees influences the behavior of game.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be talking more about mast and masting.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierrapotomac.org\/W_Needham\/TheMastingBehaviorOfTrees.htm\">www.sierrapotomac.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvdnr.gov\/wildlife\/magazine\/archive\/05Fall\/mastimportant.pdf\">www.wvdnr.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor shares a couple of terms he recently learned. In a forest setting, mast can refer to food dropped from trees and bushes, such as acorns, nuts, or berries. Masting refers to the trees&#8217; production of the mast, but &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/botany-mast-and-masting\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Botany:  mast and masting<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[779],"tags":[1839,1840],"class_list":["post-17514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","tag-mast","tag-masting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17514"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17522,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17514\/revisions\/17522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}