{"id":2577,"date":"2017-09-28T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2017-09-28T10:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:56:35","slug":"river-restoration-tour-stops-sylvan-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=2577","title":{"rendered":"River Restoration Tour Stops At Sylvan Dale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after a monster flood tore through the Big Thompson River corridor, great progress has been made in restoring ecological health and resilience to a dozen of the hardest hit stream reaches.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2576\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2576\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/River-tour-Shayna--300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/River-tour-Shayna--300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/River-tour-Shayna--768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/River-tour-Shayna--1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/River-tour-Shayna--705x476.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/River-tour-Shayna--450x304.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/River-tour-Shayna-.jpg 1312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shayna Jones, Director of Big Thompson Watershed Coalition, leads river restoration tour<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These projects, carried out by the non-profit Big Thompson Watershed Coalition, were visited by a busload of landowners, public officials, technical advisers on September 27, 2017. \u00a0One stop was at Sylvan Dale Ranch, where trout habitat was restored along a mile of river. \u00a0Renewed water flows in a side channel will be the location of environmental education courses for the Heart-J Center for Experiential Learning, a new non-profit that will hopefully assume ownership of the 3200-acre ranch in the future.<\/p>\n<p>A great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reporterherald.com\/news\/loveland-local-news\/ci_31336662\/tour-highlights-river-restoration-projects-west-loveland\">description of the tour<\/a> appeared in today&#8217;s Loveland Reporter-Herald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after a monster flood tore through the Big Thompson River corridor, great progress has been made in restoring ecological health and resilience to a dozen of the hardest hit stream reaches. These projects, carried out by the non-profit Big Thompson Watershed Coalition, were visited by a busload of landowners, public officials, technical advisers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,28],"tags":[132,133,141,142,51,134],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fish-tales","category-ranch-stories","tag-big-thompson-flood","tag-big-thompson-watershed-coalition","tag-river-restoration","tag-shayna-jones","tag-sylvan-dale-ranch","tag-trout-habitat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}