{"id":1313408,"date":"2019-08-09T17:09:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T23:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=985760"},"modified":"2019-08-09T17:09:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T23:09:12","slug":"meeker-forest-ranger-curtis-keetch-to-lead-aspen-sopris-district-for-interim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/meeker-forest-ranger-curtis-keetch-to-lead-aspen-sopris-district-for-interim\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeker forest ranger Curtis Keetch to lead Aspen-Sopris District for interim"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/InterimRangerBRF-GPI-081019-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/InterimRangerBRF-GPI-081019-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/InterimRangerBRF-GPI-081019-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/InterimRangerBRF-GPI-081019-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Blanco District Ranger Curtis Keetch will head the Aspen-Sopris district until a permanent ranger can be appointed.<\/strong><br \/><em>Provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Blanco District Ranger Curtis Keetch will be taking a break from his Meeker post to serve as acting district ranger on the Aspen-Sopris Ranger District until the position can be filled permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Current Aspen-Sopris ranger Karen Schroyer is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/aspen-sopris-district-ranger-schroyer-takes-promotion-in-oregon-after-very-active-years\/\">leaving the district<\/a> to take a&nbsp;promotion as the deputy forest supervisor on the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to working with our partners in the Roaring Fork Valley and all the dedicated employees on the district,\u201d Keetch said in a statement. \u201cIt will be a great opportunity to work in an area with such high visitor use and unique resource management challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Curtis has been the district ranger on the Blanco Ranger District since 2016. He has been working full-time for the Forest Service since 2003, when he became a wildlife biologist on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest in Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis and his family moved from Idaho to Norwood, Colo., in 2009 to work as a zone wildlife biologist for the Grand Mesa-Uncompahgre-Gunnison National Forest. Curtis and his wife Nikki have three daughters.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis grew up in a small community in southeast Idaho on a family-owned cattle ranch. He learned to love and respect the outdoors at an early age. In high school, he spent his summers helping on the ranch and working as a seasonal Forest Service employee on timber, fire, range and recreation crews.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/meeker-forest-ranger-curtis-keetch-to-lead-aspen-sopris-district-for-interim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blanco District Ranger Curtis Keetch will head the Aspen-Sopris district until a permanent ranger can be appointed.Provided Blanco District Ranger Curtis Keetch will be taking a break from his Meeker post to serve as acting district ranger on the Aspen-Sopris Ranger District until the position can be filled permanently. Current Aspen-Sopris ranger Karen Schroyer is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1313408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 02:24:11","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}