{"id":23089,"date":"2016-08-28T20:27:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T03:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23089"},"modified":"2016-08-28T20:27:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T03:27:14","slug":"logging-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/logging-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day Festivals Celebrate Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/pbunyn.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FORT BRAGG, CALIF. &#8212; Walk with big, old burley Paul Bunyan this week on a tour of the town&#8217;s hot spots and interesting history, part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/paul-bunyan-days.html\">Paul Bunyan Days<\/a>\u00a0Sept. 2-5. \u00a0From a pie sale to logging competitions, parade, hot dog eating contest, horseshoes, fireman&#8217;s ball and more, Fort Bragg&#8217;s got it all at this annual festival celebrating the region&#8217;s logging heritage. \u00a0From the tallest trees in the world head southeast 280 miles to the world&#8217;s biggest trees as another festival, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/sierra-logging-jamboree.html\">Sierra Logging Jamboree<\/a> in White Pines, hosts its annual festival on September 3. It is hosted by the wonderful\u00a0 Sierra Nevada Logging Museum\u00a0which\u00a0sponsors a logging competition featuring both professional and amateurs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT FORESTS &amp; WOOD<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The world&#8217;s largest producer and consumer of officially accounted wood is the United States.<\/li>\n<li>There are\u00a0approx. 33 million acres of forests in California.<\/li>\n<li>The overall threat is not loss of forest due to harvesting\u00a0but\u00a0risk of conversion from forest to residential use, according to University of California Forest Research.<\/li>\n<li>Federal agencies own and manage 57%\u00a0of California forests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT BRAGG, CALIF. &#8212; Walk with big, old burley Paul Bunyan this week on a tour of the town&#8217;s hot spots and interesting history, part of Paul Bunyan Days\u00a0Sept. 2-5. \u00a0From a pie sale to logging competitions, parade, hot dog eating contest, horseshoes, fireman&#8217;s ball and more, Fort Bragg&#8217;s got it all at this annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}