{"id":84,"date":"2020-01-10T11:55:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T16:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/coastal-zone-act\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2024-07-30T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:05:42","slug":"84-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/coastal-zone-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/coastal-zone-act\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/coastal-zone.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of a marsh wren by curator Meghann Matwichuk.\" class=\"wp-image-122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/coastal-zone-act\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/coastal-zone.jpg 960w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/coastal-zone-act\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/coastal-zone-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/coastal-zone-act\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/coastal-zone-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <strong>Marsh Wren. Photograph by Meghann Matwichuk. <\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Coastal Zone Act, signed in 1971 by Gov. Russell Peterson, is widely considered to be the most important &#8212; and one of the most contentious &#8212; piece of environmental legislation ever passed in Delaware. For over 40 years, it has protected 115 miles of Delaware\u2019s coast from the destructive impacts of heavy industrialization and commercial development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To showcase some of the materials in the University of Delaware Library related to this cornerstone legislation and the unique ecological treasures and opportunities it protects, \u201cThe Legacy of the Delaware Coastal Zone Act\u201d exhibition features selected manuscripts, books including children\u2019s books, videos and periodicals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition also includes information on Peterson and the act, ecological treasures of the Delaware coast, the importance of protected habitats to the extraordinary symbiotic relationship between the red knot shorebird and the prehistoric horseshoe crab, and local research and future directions connected to these topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curated by Meg Grotti and Meghann Matwichuk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coastal Zone Act, signed in 1971 by Gov. Russell Peterson, is widely considered to be the most important &#8212; and one of the most contentious &#8212; piece of environmental legislation ever passed in Delaware. For over 40 years, it has protected 115 miles of Delaware\u2019s coast from the destructive impacts of heavy industrialization and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition-home.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/coastal-zone-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/coastal-zone-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/coastal-zone-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/coastal-zone-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/coastal-zone-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/coastal-zone-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/coastal-zone-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/coastal-zone-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}