{"id":75902,"date":"2017-11-21T09:17:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T16:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/warm-temps-prompt-emergency-ordinance-for-bear-strewn-trash\/"},"modified":"2017-11-21T16:17:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T16:17:52","slug":"warm-temps-prompt-emergency-ordinance-for-bear-strewn-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/warm-temps-prompt-emergency-ordinance-for-bear-strewn-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm temps prompt emergency ordinance for bear-strewn trash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=81e9f8b0-3e22-4b85-84df-7cbda0d8d6eb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1540\" height=\"845\" alt=\"Durango City Council passed a second emergency ordinance aimed at encouraging residents to keep their trash locked up and out of reach of bears.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Durango City Council passed a second emergency ordinance aimed at encouraging residents to keep their trash locked up and out of reach of bears.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Bear Smart Durango<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Heftier fines for bear-strewn trash are making a come back, as warmer temperatures persist.<\/p>\n<p>The Durango City Council unanimously approved an emergency ordinance Monday eliminating warnings for bear-spread trash and instituting a $100 fine for a first violation of the ordinance. The ordinance also requires residents to get a bear-proof container following their first offense.<\/p>\n<p>The council approved the same emergency ordinance earlier this fall. It expired in late October.<\/p>\n<p>Councilor Sweetie Marbury suggested re-approving the ordinance at a meeting last week to help, because warm temperatures are keeping bears from their winter hibernation.<\/p>\n<p>The new emergency ordinance will expire on Jan. 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope the bears will be hibernating by then,\u201d City Attorney Dirk Nelson said.<\/p>\n<p>Code Enforcement Officer Steve Barkley said in October one resident faced a $100 fine for violating the ordinance for wildlife-spread trash. In the same month, 16 city trash containers had to be repaired or replaced because of marauding bears, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOctober is usually one of the heavier bear times as they are trying to add on the calories. \u2026 It was a very quiet month,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In September, 25 fines were issued to residents who had wildlife break into their garbage.<\/p>\n<p>Barkley said the earlier ordinance helped get residents\u2019 attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe word got around they need to take care of their trash,\u201d he 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>Residents face $100 fine for violations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1332,438,28,29,545,603],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-75902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bears","tag-food","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-waste","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75902","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=75902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75902"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=75902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}