{"id":73128,"date":"2017-01-31T20:15:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T03:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-officials-will-present-plan-to-cull-mountain-lions\/"},"modified":"2017-02-01T03:15:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T03:15:28","slug":"colorado-officials-will-present-plan-to-cull-mountain-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-officials-will-present-plan-to-cull-mountain-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado officials will present plan to cull mountain lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=69830c42-5765-4313-839c-1648f7edd253&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" alt=\"Colorado Parks and Wildlife plans to cull mountain lions to help mule deer populations.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Colorado Parks and Wildlife plans to cull mountain lions to help mule deer populations.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chuck Anderson, Colorado Parks and Wildlife\u2019s mammal research leader, will lead a presentation on CPW\u2019s three-year plan to increase the mule deer population in two regions of Colorado by killing the number of mountain lions and bears.<\/p>\n<p>This three-year project was initiated in 2008 to address mule deer\/energy development interactions and to identify improved approaches for development planning and evaluate habitat treatments as mitigation option to benefit mule deer.<\/p>\n<p>The plan would allow for the removal of as many as 15 lions and 25 bears a year from the Roan Plateau, in northwestern Colorado. The plan would be in force for three years to see if it boosts fawn survival rates.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will be from 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, at the Ridgway Community Center\/Town Hall, 201 N. Railroad St. The public is invited.<\/p>\n<p>The event is organized by Northern San Juan Broadband, a chapter of the Great Old Broads for Wilderness. For more information, contact <a href=\"mailto:northernsanjuanbroadband@gmail.com\">northernsanjuanbroadband@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/345814-nucla-men-tennessee-clients-busted-after-17-elk-poached\">Nucla men, Tennessee clients busted after 17 elk poached<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Parks and Wildlife plans to cull mountain lions to help mule deer populations.Associated Press Chuck Anderson, Colorado Parks and Wildlife\u2019s mammal research leader, will lead a presentation on CPW\u2019s three-year plan to increase the mule deer population in two regions of Colorado by killing the number of mountain lions and bears. This three-year project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[120,21,13,2009,1982,603],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-hunting","tag-parks","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73128","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=73128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73128"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}