{"id":2448514,"date":"2019-09-10T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=312626"},"modified":"2019-09-10T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T15:57:00","slug":"hunt-fire-near-meeker-continues-to-grow-now-over-2500-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/hunt-fire-near-meeker-continues-to-grow-now-over-2500-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt Fire near Meeker continues to grow; now over 2,500 acres"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Hunt Fire in Rio Blanco County reached 2,500 acres near Meeker.<\/strong>
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MEEKER \u2014 Northwest Colorado Interagency Fire Management Unit announced Monday that personnel continue to manage the Hunt Fire on Bureau of Land Management land about 26 miles southwest of Meeker in Rio Blanco County, at an estimated 2,578 acres.<\/p>\n

Lightning ignited the fire on Thursday, Sept. 5. It is remotely located, burning in thick brush on ridges and valleys north of the Roan Plateau.<\/p>\n

Firefighters continue to focus on protecting values at risk, including several isolated historic cabins and dispersed oil and gas facilities, a Monday fire unit news release stated. \u201cFire managers\u2019 objective is to keep the fire north of the Rio Blanco\/Garfield County line, south of an oil pipeline that is located north of the fire, east of Hunter Creek and west of West Willow Creek.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sally Lou Johnson, a local adjacent landowner whose BLM grazing allotment is within the burned area, appreciates the fire\u2019s benefits.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe brush and trees in that area are so overgrown, it\u2019s difficult to get animals in and out, and the junipers are so thick that hardly any grass grows under them,\u201d Johnson said in the release. \u201cThe firefighters have been terrific. They saved every one of the livestock troughs along Big Jimmy Ridge.\u201d<\/p>\n

The release added that the \u201cpatchy mosaic burn\u201d pattern will increase the diversity of ecosystems on the landscape.<\/p>\n

\u201cA more diverse landscape can support a wider variety of wildlife species. Big game and livestock will more easily be able to move through the area, and new vegetative growth will provide for greater and improved forage,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n

An area closure is in effect to provide for firefighter and public safety in the area around the wildfire. The area closure includes public lands and routes within an area north of Rio Blanco\/Garfield County line, east of Hunter Creek Road, west of West Willow Creek Road, and extending north to County Road 5. This includes Big Jimmy Gulch.<\/p>\n

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The Hunt Fire in Rio Blanco County reached 2,500 acres near Meeker.Courtesy Photo MEEKER \u2014 Northwest Colorado Interagency Fire Management Unit announced Monday that personnel continue to manage the Hunt Fire on Bureau of Land Management land about 26 miles southwest of Meeker in Rio Blanco County, at an estimated 2,578 acres. Lightning ignited the […]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 11:34:40","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}