{"id":115919,"date":"2014-12-12T00:45:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T07:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/another-beetle-makes-gains-in-dolores\/"},"modified":"2014-12-12T00:45:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T07:45:55","slug":"another-beetle-makes-gains-in-dolores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/another-beetle-makes-gains-in-dolores\/","title":{"rendered":"Another beetle makes gains in Dolores"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3248a617-c4b3-4782-b157-9cd19b4e520a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3248a617-c4b3-4782-b157-9cd19b4e520a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3248a617-c4b3-4782-b157-9cd19b4e520a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3248a617-c4b3-4782-b157-9cd19b4e520a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1525\" alt=\"The roundheaded pine beetle has killed trees in the Lake Canyon area in the San Juan National Forest. It\u2019s also infested about 500 to 600 acres on the east side of the Dolores River Canyon about six miles north of Bradfield Bridge.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The roundheaded pine beetle has killed trees in the Lake Canyon area in the San Juan National Forest. It\u2019s also infested about 500 to 600 acres on the east side of the Dolores River Canyon about six miles north of Bradfield Bridge.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of San Juan National Forest<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The roundheaded pine beetle has infested about 500 to 600 acres on the east side of the Dolores River Canyon about six miles north of Bradfield Bridge, said Mark Krabath, timber and mechanical fuel supervisor at the Dolores Public Lands Office.<\/p>\n<p>This is up from the 300 acres in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The beetles attack the largest pine in the stand and have worked their way down to 5-inch diameter samplings, Krabath said.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak started in 2012 and first was discovered by someone running cattle on national forest land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really the first sizable beetle outbreak we\u2019ve had in this district since I got here in 1999,\u201d Krabath said.<\/p>\n<p>The beetle has killed about 50 percent of the trees in the stands it attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The district has been working to limit its impact by working to clear 3,200 acres of dense ponderosa pine in the vicinity of the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best we can do is try to increase the vigor and health of the stands around (the outbreak),\u201d Krabath said.<\/p>\n<p>The efforts have included mastication and upcoming timber sales. Unfortunately, there is not much of a market for ponderosa pine outside of firewood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>roundheaded pine beetle has killed trees in the Lake Canyon area in the San Juan National Forest. It\u2019s also infested about 500 to 600 acres on the east side of the Dolores River Canyon about six miles north of Bradfield Bridge.Courtesy of San Juan National Forest The roundheaded pine beetle has infested about 500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[918,13,603],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-115919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-forests","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115919","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=115919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115919"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=115919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}