{"id":1454,"date":"2013-09-19T20:37:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T02:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2013-09-19T20:37:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T02:37:02","slug":"improve-the-bosque-with-more-wetlands-meadows-abqjournal-online-abqbosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1454","title":{"rendered":"Improve the bosque with more wetlands, meadows | ABQJournal Online #abqbosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/263741\/opinion\/improve-the-bosque-with-more-wetlands-meadows.html\">Improve the bosque with more wetlands, meadows | ABQJournal Online<\/a> By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/author\/mcoleman\">Ross Coleman \/ Albuquerque resident <\/a>| Mon, Sep 16, 2013<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If I were to make a single suggestion regarding the Rio Grande vision it would be this: Take a significant portion of the funding (half or more) for ecological restoration. Focus that effort to create groundwater infusion wetlands (mimicking oxbow marshes), wet meadows, wooded wetlands and overbank wetland areas.  <\/p>\n<p>The benefits for wildlife and the people who will be visiting the bosque will be tremendous.  <\/p>\n<p>I think there is a place for improvements, such as trails that will bring pedestrians into the bosque and along the river. They should be designed with an emphasis on a low-impact human presence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/263741\/opinion\/improve-the-bosque-with-more-wetlands-meadows.html\">Improve the bosque with more wetlands, meadows | ABQJournal Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improve the bosque with more wetlands, meadows | ABQJournal Online By Ross Coleman \/ Albuquerque resident | Mon, Sep 16, 2013 If I were to make a single suggestion regarding the Rio Grande vision it would be this: Take a significant portion of the funding (half or more) for ecological restoration. Focus that effort to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1454\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Improve the bosque with more wetlands, meadows | ABQJournal Online #abqbosque<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bosque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","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=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}