{"id":105536,"date":"2016-04-25T01:02:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T07:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/vandals-and-dumpers-strike-mud-springs-area\/"},"modified":"2016-04-25T01:02:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T07:02:19","slug":"vandals-and-dumpers-strike-mud-springs-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/vandals-and-dumpers-strike-mud-springs-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandals and dumpers strike Mud Springs area"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:a17254d2-d622-411e-b6fc-86b44b8147e7 --><\/p>\n<p>BLM officials and volunteer groups have worked diligently to restore the Mud Springs area.<\/p>\n<p>But vandals and dumpers continue to damage the area at a cost to taxpayers, says Kathe Hayes, of the San Juan Mountains Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe community has put in so much volunteer effort to make the area nice, then to have it destroyed and dumped on is tough to see,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The multiuse land has separate and shared areas for rock-crawlers, ATVs, motorcycles, hikers, horses and mountain bikers.<\/p>\n<p>Recently signs have been destroyed, and couches dumped.<\/p>\n<p>BLM officials estimate it cost the taxpayers $500 in labor costs, fuel and landfill fees to remove the couches.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes noted that the items could have been dumped for free April 18-23 during the Cortez cleanup program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illegal dumping costs taxpayers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-105536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105536"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=105536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}