{"id":2449702,"date":"2019-10-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=314120"},"modified":"2019-10-10T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:00:00","slug":"aspen-history-preserving-pastures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-history-preserving-pastures\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen History: Preserving Pastures"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/history-atw-101019-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/history-atw-101019-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/history-atw-101019-1-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>One b\/w photograph and negative of several horsemen herding cattle on the movie set for &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Doorway.&#8221; The movie was filmed in the Maroon Creek Valley, 1948-.<\/strong><br \/><em>Loey Ringquist<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cPasture is a crop,\u201d stated The Aspen Times on Sept. 26, 1946. \u201cGood permanent pastures can play an important part in the conservation plans of Pitkin County farmers, says Arthur Trentaz, Chairman of the County Agricultural Conservation Association committee. These pastures conserve both soil and water and provide large amounts of food for livestock, he said. The pasture cover holds the soil and retards water runoff, allowing the ground more time to soak it up. Pastures, if good, will feed more livestock and less grain will be required. This will decrease the cost of livestock production. The Agricultural Conservation Program pays a part of farmers\u2019 cost of reseeding worn-out land and planting new pastures. Farmers gain from the livestock fed off this land and the Government cooperates in saving more of the nation\u2019s topsoil. This finally adds up to more and better food and improved health for everybody, the chairman added. In addition, the program includes practices that make more sure the establishment of good pastures. Among these are land contouring, weed control, lime and phosphate applications, development of water facilities, terracing and many others.\u201d This image shows a herd of cattle in the Maroon Creek Valley in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/preserving-pastures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One b\/w photograph and negative of several horsemen herding cattle on the movie set for &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Doorway.&#8221; The movie was filmed in the Maroon Creek Valley, 1948-.Loey Ringquist \u201cPasture is a crop,\u201d stated The Aspen Times on Sept. 26, 1946. \u201cGood permanent pastures can play an important part in the conservation plans of Pitkin County [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2449702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 01:27:32","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&#039;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\/2449702","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=2449702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}