{"id":5761,"date":"2025-12-09T08:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siltrust.ca\/?p=5761"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:01:12","slug":"vehicles-dumping-are-damaging-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.siltrust.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/vehicles-dumping-are-damaging-habitat\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicles &#038; Dumping are Damaging Habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite a vehicle closure now in its 5<sup>th<\/sup> year, people continue to disregard SILT\u2019s private land ownership of its Grand Forks Grasslands conservation property.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People are welcome to walk on SILT\u2019s land to enjoy nature and wildlife-related recreation, but vehicles, dogs, fires, litter, livestock, and camping are all prohibited. \u201cSILT purchased this land to protect and produce wildlife\u201d, says SILT\u2019s executive director and biologist, Al Peatt. \u201cWe will be ramping up controls to prevent further habitat damage by trespassers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Users are asked to obey signage and respect this sensitive grassland. The Morrissey Creek public road ends before the yellow gate, and all vehicle operators are asked to park there or turn around. The land beyond the yellow gate is private; there are no public trails or roads beyond the gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a vehicle closure now in its 5th year, people continue to disregard SILT\u2019s private land ownership of its Grand Forks Grasslands conservation property. People are welcome to walk on SILT\u2019s land to enjoy nature and wildlife-related recreation, but vehicles, dogs, fires, litter, livestock, and camping are all prohibited. \u201cSILT purchased this land to protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42,87,32],"tags":[54,99],"class_list":["post-5761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-environmental","category-habitat-damage","category-silt-news","tag-grand-forks","tag-habitat-damage"],"acf":[],"mb":{"photo_credit":{"simple_value_formatted":"","value_formatted":"","value":"","field":{"autocomplete":false,"cols":false,"rows":3,"maxlength":false,"minlength":false,"wrap":false,"readonly":false,"id":"photo_credit","name":"Left - Right","type":"textarea","label_description":"","multiple":false,"std":"","desc":"","format":"","before":"","after":"","field_name":"photo_credit","placeholder":"","save_field":true,"clone":false,"min_clone":0,"max_clone":0,"sort_clone":false,"add_button":"+ Add more","clone_default":false,"clone_as_multiple":false,"clone_empty_start":false,"class":"","disabled":false,"required":false,"autofocus":false,"attributes":[],"sanitize_callback":null,"limit":0,"storage":{},"label":"Left - Right"}}},"meta_box":{"photo_credit":""},"mfb_rest_fields":["title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.siltrust.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.siltrust.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.siltrust.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.siltrust.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.siltrust.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.siltrust.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.siltrust.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.siltrust.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.siltrust.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.siltrust.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}