{"id":64091,"date":"2018-06-27T19:05:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T01:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fed-funding-available-for-ranchers-farmers-hit-by-fire\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T01:05:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T01:05:30","slug":"fed-funding-available-for-ranchers-farmers-hit-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fed-funding-available-for-ranchers-farmers-hit-by-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed funding available for ranchers, farmers hit by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f508c894-a6db-4661-85fe-0ed9a75dfa28&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1928\" height=\"1145\" alt=\"The Natural Resources Conservation Service has funding available to help private landowners who suffered losses from the 416 Fire. The agency\u2019s Environmental Quality Incentives Program is taking applications to assist local agricultural producers who may have had property damaged.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Natural Resources Conservation Service has funding available to help private landowners who suffered losses from the 416 Fire. The agency\u2019s Environmental Quality Incentives Program is taking applications to assist local agricultural producers who may have had property damaged.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrcs.usda.gov\/wps\/portal\/nrcs\/main\/national\/programs\/financial\/eqip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Quality Incentives Program<\/a> is taking applications to assist local agricultural producers who may have had property damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Landowners interested in replacing or restoring irrigation systems, replacing windbreaks and shelter belts, rebuilding fences, protecting and restoring scorched grazing lands, and putting in place conservation measures to mitigate losses are encouraged to apply.<\/p>\n<p>Producers harmed by the fire must submit applications by July 13 to the Durango NRCS field office, which covers La Plata and San Juan counties, at 31 Suttle Street in Durango. The telephone number is 422-3365.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more information about the program or to find the local service center near you, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/\">www.co.nrcs.usda.gov<\/a> and select the contact us or the programs link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural Resources Conservation Service has funding available to help private landowners who suffered losses from the 416 Fire. The agency\u2019s Environmental Quality Incentives Program is taking applications to assist local agricultural producers who may have had property damaged.Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file The agency\u2019s Environmental Quality Incentives Program is taking applications to assist local agricultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2838,945],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-64091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-416-fire","tag-united-states-government"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64091","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=64091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64091"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=64091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}