{"id":125,"date":"2004-05-10T11:46:41","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T17:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/mesa-verde-colorado\/"},"modified":"2004-05-10T11:46:41","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T17:46:41","slug":"mesa-verde-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Mesa Verde, Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mesa Verde’s fans dwell on birthday plans<\/a> By Electa Draper, Denver Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n

Mesa Verde is seeing tough times<\/b>: Tight federal budget for national parks, regionwide tourism declines and park-closing wildfires that have consumed much of the pi\u00f1on-juniper forest, half of Mesa Verde’s 52,000 acres, since 1996. Visitor numbers dropped from a mid-1990s spike of more than 700,000 to last year’s 450,000<\/b>. …<\/p>\n

The ruins in the nation’s premier archaeological preserve are from centuries to more than a millennium old. The park itself is still a whippersnapper, turning only 100 on June 29, 2006<\/b>. …<\/p>\n

This park, which preserves the remnants of the Anasazi, also known as the Ancestral Puebloans<\/b>, is officially an international treasure. The United Nations has declared it a World Heritage Site. National Geographic deemed it one of ”50 places of a lifetime – the world’s greatest destinations” in a special travel edition at the turn of this century.<\/p>\n

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Mesa Verde’s fans dwell on birthday plans By Electa Draper, Denver Post Staff Writer Mesa Verde is seeing tough times: Tight federal budget for national parks, regionwide tourism declines and park-closing wildfires that have consumed much of the pi\u00f1on-juniper forest, half of Mesa Verde’s 52,000 acres, since 1996. Visitor numbers dropped from a mid-1990s spike … Continue reading Mesa Verde, Colorado<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}