{"id":68942,"date":"2016-09-20T03:13:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T09:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/joseph-meyer-to-lead-blm-colorado-southwest-district\/"},"modified":"2016-09-20T09:13:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T09:13:13","slug":"joseph-meyer-to-lead-blm-colorado-southwest-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/joseph-meyer-to-lead-blm-colorado-southwest-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Meyer to lead BLM Colorado Southwest District"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e1f416b9-fed6-48f1-8646-59c2b40dc587&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2147\" alt=\"Meyer\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Meyer<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cJoe has a wealth of experience in managing the public\u2019s land in Colorado and Wyoming,\u201d BLM Colorado State Director Ruth Welch said. \u201cHe has been very successful working with the local communities that are so important to the BLM. His demonstrated leadership will serve southwest Colorado well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meyer began his career with the BLM as a seasonal employee in 1982. Since then has worked as a hydrology technician, soil scientist, physical scientist, assistant field manager and field manager. Meyer has a bachelor\u2019s degree in watershed and resource management. With over 30 years of government service in natural resource management, he has supported or managed nearly every BLM program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people and landscapes of southwest Colorado are truly remarkable, and I\u2019m looking forward to the opportunity to work there,\u201d Meyer said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a privilege to work with the talented BLM staff and managers in Colorado, as well as the communities that are so important in managing the public\u2019s land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meyer has a longtime love of the outdoors that led to his career attracted him to natural resource management. He moved West to experience the vast public lands from the Rocky Mountains to red rock canyons. Meyer and his family enjoy hiking, fishing, camping and flat water kayaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meyerdu1-i-syn \u201cJoe has a wealth of experience in managing the public\u2019s land in Colorado and Wyoming,\u201d BLM Colorado State Director Ruth Welch said. \u201cHe has been very successful working with the local communities that are so important to the BLM. His demonstrated leadership will serve southwest Colorado well.\u201d Meyer began his career with the BLM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[193,195],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-land-use","tag-u-s-bureau-of-land-management"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68942","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=68942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68942"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}