{"id":22692,"date":"2025-04-14T19:05:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T01:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/learn-soil-health-water-rights-at-land-steward-workshop-in-lewis\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:16:25","slug":"learn-soil-health-water-rights-at-land-steward-workshop-in-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/learn-soil-health-water-rights-at-land-steward-workshop-in-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn soil health, water rights at Land Steward Workshop in Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=541bcc6a-75d7-4aba-8bd7-a841fbd634df&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1951\" height=\"1547\" alt=\"Steve Miles talks about irrigation and using a moisture probe at the Dolores Conservation District Ag-Water Assessment Course April 6. The course offers on-site water assessments, strategies to improve water management, soil health, crop needs and nutrient management.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Steve Miles talks about irrigation and using a moisture probe at the Dolores Conservation District Ag-Water Assessment Course April 6. The course offers on-site water assessments, strategies to improve water management, soil health, crop needs and nutrient management.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/Cortez Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>To teach landowners, farmers, ranchers and the like about responsible ecological management of the land and why it matters, the High Desert and Mancos Conservation Districts are hosting a one-day workshop this Saturday, April 19.<\/p>\n<p>For $10, people can register for the all-day workshop at Fozzie\u2019s Farm in Lewis \u2013 it starts at 9 a.m. and goes till 4 p.m. \u2013 and lunch is provided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity for landowners in Montezuma County to hear from a variety of sources and learn how and why sound ecological management is important,\u201d said Adam Tess, a conservation technician at the High Desert Conservation District.<\/p>\n<p>At the Land Steward Program Workshop, attendees will learn about soil health, water rights, irrigation water management, pasture and noxious weed management and site planning overviews, said Tess.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll also have the opportunity to converse with local experts in these areas, and ask questions to \u2013 hopefully \u2013 gain knowledge for managing their land better, in terms of both efficiency and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity to connect with people who also care in this community about things that matter to all of us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested can <a href=\"https:\/\/high-desert-conservation-district.booqableshop.com\/products\/master-land-steward-course\" id=\"link-07b061d888d5fea75a1517513c342b82\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">register online<\/a> at the High Desert Conservation District\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=482b0528-fa02-5ff3-9c81-3f6dbc7f6bf8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1545\" height=\"2000\" alt=\"The Land Steward Program Workshop flyer, advertised by the High Desert Conservation District.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Land Steward Program Workshop flyer, advertised by the High Desert Conservation District.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018It\u2019s a great opportunity to connect with people who also care &#8230; about things that matter to all of us,\u2019 conservation technician says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[281,28,2049,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-agriculture","tag-headlines","tag-lewis","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22692","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=22692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77813,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22692\/revisions\/77813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22692"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}