{"id":69394,"date":"2017-06-26T17:49:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T23:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mesa-verde-bans-open-fires-throughout-park\/"},"modified":"2017-06-26T23:49:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T23:49:17","slug":"mesa-verde-bans-open-fires-throughout-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mesa-verde-bans-open-fires-throughout-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesa Verde bans open fires throughout park"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1321e176-6a8a-42f1-aa79-3f8caf433c6c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1288\" alt=\"Fire manager Steve Underwood points out an area where the trees have burned at Mesa Verde National Park. From 2000 to 2003, a series of wildfires ripped through the park, burning about 24,000-acres.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Fire manager Steve Underwood points out an area where the trees have burned at Mesa Verde National Park. From 2000 to 2003, a series of wildfires ripped through the park, burning about 24,000-acres.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mesa Verde National Park has banned open fires throughout the park, including all the residences, Morefield Campground and the Chapin Mesa picnic area, because of the threat of wildfire.<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions take effect on Saturday, July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Recent hot, dry, and breezy weather has resulted in extremely dry vegetation fuels, the park said.<\/p>\n<p>Pressurized gas stoves and contained charcoal grills, such as Weber or Smoky Joe grills, are permitted at Morefield Campground and the Chapin picnic area, but no open wood-burning fires are allowed in campground fire rings or anywhere else, the park announced Monday in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Smoking is only permitted inside enclosed vehicles. Fireworks are prohibited in Mesa Verde National Park.<\/p>\n<p>The park said restrictions will remain in effect until the fire danger becomes less severe.<\/p>\n<p>A small wildfire Monday in a remote section of the San Juan National Forest near the Divide Road (564) burned two acres and triggered road and trail closures.<\/p>\n<p>The 412 Fire was reported on June 23 by a hiker, and is believed to be caused by lightning that was documented in the area last week. The low-intensity fire is burning in spruce and fir at 10,100 feet in elevation, near the Ryman and Salt Creek trails, about 5 miles east of the Roaring Fork trailhead in Montezuma County.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service also announced on Monday that a red flag warning was in effect Tuesday and Wednesday in Montezuma and Dolores counties because of gusty winds and low humidity. A red flag warning means wildfires could start easily and grow rapidly, becoming difficult to control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>manager Steve Underwood points out an area where the trees have burned at Mesa Verde National Park. From 2000 to 2003, a series of wildfires ripped through the park, burning about 24,000-acres.Sam Green\/The Journal Mesa Verde National Park has banned open fires throughout the park, including all the residences, Morefield Campground and the Chapin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-69394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69394","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=69394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69394"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=69394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}