{"id":64832,"date":"2020-05-13T03:23:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T09:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/webinar-on-montezuma-county-wildfire-risk-is-coming-up\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:14:34","slug":"webinar-on-montezuma-county-wildfire-risk-is-coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/webinar-on-montezuma-county-wildfire-risk-is-coming-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar on Montezuma County wildfire risk is coming up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:e6201c9e-907b-487d-889f-bcd84bf25aaf --><\/p>\n<p>A webinar on local wildfire conditions and mitigation will be broadcast online May 21 at 6 p.m. by the Dolores Watershed Resilient Forest Collaborative.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation, titled \u201cWhat Is My Wildlife Risk?\u201d can be accessed live via the DWRF website at <a href=\"http:\/\/dwrfcollaborative.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dwrfcollaborative.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It features local professionals Danny Margoles, DWARF director; Patrick Seekins, fire management officer for the San Juan National Forest; Alex Graf, director of Wildfire Adapted Partnership; and Becca Samulski, with Fire Adapted Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The agenda includes:<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Update on the wildfire outlook for the area.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Information on the rapid wildfire risk assessments completed for businesses and residents in the town of Dolores.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Information on community resources and cost share opportunities for wildfire mitigation.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Update on Forest Service wildfire mitigation efforts to protect the community and resources.<\/em>After the presentations, the public may type questions for panel discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The webinar is an alternative to a gathering that would not be permitted of the coronavirus pandemic, said Margoles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve adapted our approach, because the events we normally do outreach at are canceled,\u201d he said. \u201cFire risk does not go away because the coronavirus is here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drought conditions have returned to the Four Corners, creating significant wildfire danger, officials report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make sure homeowners have the resources they need to mitigate their risks and protect themselves and their property,\u201d Margoles said.<\/p>\n<p>For more information email Margoles at <a href=\"mailto:coordinator@dwrfcollaborative.org\">coordinator@dwrfcollaborative.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community invited to join discussion is May 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28,29,199,84],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-64832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-san-juan-national-forest","tag-wildfire"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64832","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=64832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88531,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64832\/revisions\/88531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64832"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=64832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}