{"id":339681,"date":"2025-12-12T04:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339681\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T04:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:32:09","slug":"city-of-lethbridge-ramping-up-efforts-to-remove-invasive-russian-olive-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339681\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Lethbridge ramping up efforts to remove invasive Russian olive trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/37841f89-a32c-45c1-9e92-1f229eaa5f92.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Russian olive tree. The City of Lethbridge is taking steps to remove the invasive species. (Photo: Mrehssani | Dreamstime.com)<\/p>\n<p>By David Opinko<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tDec 11, 2025 | 2:00 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Officials with the City of Lethbridge are asking the public to do their part to keep an invasive species out of the community, as they increase their own efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Russian olive is an invasive species that spreads throughout the city\u2019s parks and the river valley.<\/p>\n<p>They say these trees grow aggressively and crowds out native species, outcompetes native species for water and soil, alters soil chemistry, reduces wildlife access, and are highly combustible.<\/p>\n<p>The invasive plants thrive in climates with hot, dry summers and cold winters, like Lethbridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian olive tree. The City of Lethbridge is taking steps to remove the invasive species. (Photo: Mrehssani |&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-339681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}