{"id":50076,"date":"2020-12-02T19:26:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T02:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/officials-say-snow-loving-ptarmigan-resilient-to-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2020-12-03T02:26:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T02:26:11","slug":"officials-say-snow-loving-ptarmigan-resilient-to-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/officials-say-snow-loving-ptarmigan-resilient-to-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials say snow-loving ptarmigan resilient to climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The southern white-tailed ptarmigan is the smallest grouse in the North America. It\u2019s found only in alpine regions of Colorado and a sliver of Northern New Mexico, spending most of its life in areas so windy and cold that trees can\u2019t grow.<\/p>\n<p>The birds occurred historically in Wyoming but are believed to be gone from the state.<\/p>\n<p>While their habitat is expected to deteriorate as climate change brings hotter conditions, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists determined that enough suitable habitat will be left through 2050 for the birds to survive.<\/p>\n<p>After being petitioned by wildlife groups, the government in 2012 had determined climate change was a potential threat to the ptarmigan, because it could depress the bird\u2019s population growth and increase its susceptibility to heat stress.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife advocates have criticized the wildlife service for limiting the time frame of some of its climate change projections under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>southern white-tailed ptarmigan is the smallest grouse in the North America. It\u2019s found only in alpine regions of Colorado and a sliver of Northern New Mexico, spending most of its life in areas so windy and cold that trees can\u2019t grow. The birds occurred historically in Wyoming but are believed to be gone from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-50076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50076","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=50076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50076"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=50076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}