{"id":19785,"date":"2019-10-30T16:06:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T22:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=61206"},"modified":"2019-10-30T16:06:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T22:06:54","slug":"grand-county-now-selling-burn-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/grand-county-now-selling-burn-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand County now selling burn permits"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/08\/RMNPslash-shn-110514-1240x699.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/08\/RMNPslash-shn-110514-1240x699.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/08\/RMNPslash-shn-110514-325x183.jpg 325w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/08\/RMNPslash-shn-110514-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/08\/RMNPslash-shn-110514-620x349.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Recent winter weather in Grand County means the time is right to start the 2019-20 slash pile burn season.<\/p>\n<p>Any fire larger than a campfire three feet in diameter requires a Grand County Burn Permit for $20 for individuals and $100 for commercial permits, in which material is brought in from other areas to be burned. The permits only apply to slash on private property, not demolition materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurn permits help track and manage the smoke from pile burning throughout the County; allowing burning only during appropriate air quality conditions and limiting the amount of burning that can occur on any given day,\u201d according to a news release from Grand County Natural Resources.<\/p>\n<p>Allowing residents to burn slash on their own properties helps the county remove potential wildfire fuels. While fire managers make efforts to reduce the smoke, some will be inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Grand County Natural Resources also partners with state and federal agencies to coordinate burning. For those operations, a burn plan is created, land managers survey the area and potential risks and must meet air quality standards.<\/p>\n<p>Burn season starts once there is sufficient, season-long snow on the ground. The season typically runs to April 1 depending on the snowpack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/grand-county-now-selling-burn-permits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent winter weather in Grand County means the time is right to start the 2019-20 slash pile burn season. Any fire larger than a campfire three feet in diameter requires a Grand County Burn Permit for $20 for individuals and $100 for commercial permits, in which material is brought in from other areas to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 10:47:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}