{"id":63858,"date":"2018-08-09T21:16:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T03:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/commissioners-wasting-money-on-claim\/"},"modified":"2018-08-10T03:16:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T03:16:15","slug":"commissioners-wasting-money-on-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/commissioners-wasting-money-on-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners wasting money on claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All the trails in question, including Bear Creek, Ryman and Calico, have always been open to hikers, cyclists and equestrians. You just can\u2019t drive on all of them. Most of the trails are just partially within or completely outside Montezuma County, which may leave citizens wondering why we are wasting county resources in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan County, Utah, has wasted millions of taxpayer dollars over the past decade asserting the same RS 2477 claims to no avail. Our county commissioners have already donated $1,000 to The American Lands Council, which promotes giving states ownership of federal lands. I don\u2019t know what the county received for the generous donation, but obviously, our commissioners have no qualms with wasting other people\u2019s money.<\/p>\n<p>There are already 144 miles of motorized trails in the Dolores District. We don\u2019t need more motorized travel through the few remaining quiet places. Please remember these three politicians at the polls.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Sykes<\/p>\n<p>Dolores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the trails in question, including Bear Creek, Ryman and Calico, have always been open to hikers, cyclists and equestrians. You just can\u2019t drive on all of them. Most of the trails are just partially within or completely outside Montezuma County, which may leave citizens wondering why we are wasting county resources in the first [&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":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-63858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63858","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=63858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63858"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=63858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}