{"id":67166,"date":"2017-02-02T01:08:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T08:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bureau-of-reclamation-oks-lake-nighthorse-lease\/"},"modified":"2017-02-02T08:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T08:08:32","slug":"bureau-of-reclamation-oks-lake-nighthorse-lease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bureau-of-reclamation-oks-lake-nighthorse-lease\/","title":{"rendered":"Bureau of Reclamation OKs Lake Nighthorse lease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=24700301-30a6-4437-b671-5df40577fa3a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1150\" height=\"1426\" alt=\"The Bureau of Reclamation approved a lease on Friday that will allow the city to manage recreation at Lake Nighthorse.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Bureau of Reclamation approved a lease on Friday that will allow the city to manage recreation at Lake Nighthorse.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Herald file photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Bureau of Reclamation recently approved a lease agreement that will allow the city of Durango to manage recreation at Lake Nighthorse.<\/p>\n<p>The city approved the 25-year lease in January and the bureau signed it on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>However several legal steps and some construction work remains before the lake can open; there is no timeline for opening the lake.<\/p>\n<p>The next big step is the annexation of the property into the city, so the city can provide law enforcement, said Cathy Metz, director of Parks and Recreation.<\/p>\n<p>The process generally takes about three months, said Justyn Liff, spokeswoman for the bureau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully we can keep on moving forward,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>A planning-and-development memorandum of understanding between the city and the bureau must be signed and necessary infrastructure, including a dock, must be built before the lake can open.<\/p>\n<p>The bureau must finish a cultural resource management plan for the lake, and the city is working out details of how recreation will be managed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just having continued conversations with all the interested parties,\u201d Metz said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@durangoherald.com\">mshinn@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>timeline set for lake opening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2216,2088],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-67166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-lake-nighthorse","tag-u-s-bureau-of-reclamation"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67166","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=67166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67166"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=67166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}