{"id":32168,"date":"2023-08-20T14:21:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T20:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/crews-complete-burn-operations-at-rim-fire-south-of-colorado-state-line\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T20:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T20:21:41","slug":"crews-complete-burn-operations-at-rim-fire-south-of-colorado-state-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/crews-complete-burn-operations-at-rim-fire-south-of-colorado-state-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews complete burn operations at Rim Fire south of Colorado state line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1ef8abc6-9d9c-4c96-b07e-cf6974949172&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"Courtesy&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A group from Durango required rescue Monday at Navajo Lake, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Courtesy&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A group from Durango required rescue Monday at Navajo Lake, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Wildfire crews battling the Rim Fire at the Colorado-New Mexico state line on Friday completed containment burn operations and secured lines, according to Teresa Rigby of the Bureau of Land Management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be the final update unless significant changes occur,\u201d she said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The 150-acre blaze is on the north side of New Mexico Highway 511, about a mile south of the state line. The area is entirely on BLM-managed lands.<\/p>\n<p>The fire reportedly started Aug. 13 and was caused by a lightning strike, the BLM said. Burning in pi\u00f1on and juniper woodland, it continues to smolder, with isolated torching.<\/p>\n<p>BLM and two contracted 20-person crews responded to the blaze. Crews have been supported by helicopter water drops during burn operations in the past two days.<\/p>\n<p>BLM objectives include reducing the amount of encroaching pi\u00f1on-juniper woodlands prevalent in the area and promoting the growth of mountain mahogany and Gambel oak for wildlife habitat. Because the fire is being managed for resource benefits, a percentage containment has not been set, the BLM said.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke may continue to be visible from Ignacio, Navajo Dam and New Mexico 511 and  might cause respiratory problems for people sensitive to smoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>manages fire to enhance wildlife habitat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-32168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32168","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=32168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32168"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=32168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}