{"id":16652,"date":"2017-03-20T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T22:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=16652"},"modified":"2017-03-12T12:31:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T17:31:58","slug":"ksl-zion-national-park-closes-13-climbing-routes-to-protect-nesting-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/20\/ksl-zion-national-park-closes-13-climbing-routes-to-protect-nesting-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"(KSL) Zion National Park closes 13 climbing routes to protect nesting falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From the article&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zion National Park officials <a class=\"sense-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/zion\/planyourvisit\/climbing.htm\" target=\"_blank\" data-contentid=\"490422\">have closed<\/a> 13 different climbing routes in the park to protect nesting <a class=\"sense-link\" href=\"http:\/\/animals.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/birds\/peregrine-falcon\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-contentid=\"490422\">peregrine falcons<\/a> throughout the area.<\/p>\n<p>The routes were closed Wednesday and will remain closed while park wildlife biologists determine the birds&#8217; nesting locations. Cliffs that don\u2019t shelter nest sites this year will reopen some time by late April or early May. Cliffs with nests will remain closed until the falcon chicks fledge, which usually happens in late July.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?sid=43344973\"><strong>Click Here to Read More&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?sid=43344973\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12719\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/zionnationalpark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/zionnationalpark.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/zionnationalpark-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the article&#8230; &#8220;Zion National Park officials have closed 13 different climbing routes in the park to protect nesting peregrine falcons throughout the area. The routes were closed Wednesday and will remain closed while park wildlife biologists determine the birds&#8217; nesting locations. Cliffs that don\u2019t shelter nest sites this year will reopen some time by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16657,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652\/revisions\/16657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}