{"id":743,"date":"2016-10-18T06:39:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T14:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2016-10-18T06:45:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T14:45:14","slug":"couple-donates-43-acres-to-detroit-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/couple-donates-43-acres-to-detroit-wildlife-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple donates 43 Acres to Detroit Wildlife Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-746 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/43-acres-10-41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/43-acres-10-41.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/43-acres-10-41-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/43-acres-10-41-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/local\/2016\/10\/04\/Monroe-County-family-donates-43-acres-to-wildlife-refuge-Couple-spent-about-500-000-restoring-site-to-natural-beauty.html\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Photo: The Blade \/ Andy Morrison<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clarice and Clive Taylor <\/strong>donated 43 acres of wetlands, woodlots and planted grasslands\u00a0to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be added to the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge.\u00a0The site, previously a soybean farm, took over\u00a015 years for the Taylors to acquire and restore the land\u00a0with a ton of hard work and money (while they did most of the work themselves, they still estimate they spent about $500,000). \u00a0The couple built seven ponds, a bald eagle nesting platform, planted trees, wildflowers and native plants while\u00a0removing exotic plants and invasive phragmites (phragmites are a wetland grass \/reed species).\u00a0Read more about this wonderful couple and their story <a href=\"http:\/\/toledoblade.typepad.com\/ripple-effect\/2016\/10\/what-drives-someone-to-build-their-own-wildlife-refuge-ask-clive-taylor-natures-renaissance-man.html\" target=\"_blank\">here \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuge\/Detroit_River\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge<\/a> is located along the lower Detroit River and western shoreline of Lake Erie, just 20 miles south of Detroit and 50 miles north of Toledo, Ohio. The refuge consists of nearly 6,000 acres of unique habitat, including islands, coastal wetlands, marshes, shoals, and waterfront lands within an authorized boundary extending along 48 miles of shoreline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: The Blade \/ Andy Morrison Clarice and Clive Taylor donated 43 acres of wetlands, woodlots and planted grasslands\u00a0to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be added to the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge.\u00a0The site, previously a soybean farm, took over\u00a015 years for the Taylors to acquire and restore the land\u00a0with a ton of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}