{"id":98761,"date":"2018-07-14T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T20:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-open-space-conservancy-hires-executive-director\/"},"modified":"2018-07-14T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T20:33:24","slug":"la-plata-open-space-conservancy-hires-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-open-space-conservancy-hires-executive-director\/","title":{"rendered":"La Plata Open Space Conservancy hires executive director"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=550cead1-9cae-40b6-98ef-94b1ea4c9d3b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=550cead1-9cae-40b6-98ef-94b1ea4c9d3b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=550cead1-9cae-40b6-98ef-94b1ea4c9d3b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=550cead1-9cae-40b6-98ef-94b1ea4c9d3b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"425\" height=\"625\" alt=\"Barker\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Barker<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Barker is originally from West Virginia and earned undergraduate and law degrees from West Virginia University. He has worked with the Peace Corps in Lesotho, Africa; for the National Park Service at Sequoia National Park in California; and most recently moved from Glenwood Springs, where he worked for a nonprofit organization and practiced law. His work as an attorney focused on water, real estate, oil and gas, construction, local government and special district matters.<\/p>\n<p>In his new position, Barker will lead efforts to conserve natural and agricultural lands in Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lposc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.lposc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barkerdu1-i-syn Barker is originally from West Virginia and earned undergraduate and law degrees from West Virginia University. He has worked with the Peace Corps in Lesotho, Africa; for the National Park Service at Sequoia National Park in California; and most recently moved from Glenwood Springs, where he worked for a nonprofit organization and practiced law. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742,5735],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-98761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98761","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=98761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98761"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=98761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}