{"id":3604,"date":"2011-06-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/new-national-natural-landmark\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:33:39","slug":"new-national-natural-landmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2011\/06\/28\/new-national-natural-landmark\/","title":{"rendered":"New National Natural Landmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Earlier this month, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar designated six new national natural landmark, including the Hanging Lake site in Garfield County. CNHP provided the National Park Service with the evaluation of this site that resulted in the designation. Read the NPS press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/nnlandmarks\/index.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: inherit\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6620\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Hangin-lake__36_from-above.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Hangin-lake__36_from-above.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Hangin-lake__36_from-above-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: inherit;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">&nbsp;View of the lake from above. CNHP photo by J.B. Bell<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: inherit;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: inherit\"><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     800x600   &lt;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     Normal   0               false   false   false      EN-US   X-NONE   X-NONE                                                                                                &lt;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;-->                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <!--[if !mso]&gt;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6621\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/video_object.png\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/video_object.png 425w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/video_object-300x243.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/>  &lt;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;  &lt;![endif]--><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">Hanging Lake is a unique example within the Southern Rocky Mountains of a lake formed by travertine deposition, and supports one of the best examples of a <a href=\"http:\/\/cnhpblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/hanging-gardens.html\">hanging-garden plant community<\/a> in the region. The site is also one of the larger and least altered travertine systems in the area, where natural geologic and hydrologic processes continue to operate as they have done throughout the history of the lake.<\/span><\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: inherit\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: inherit\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: inherit\"> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar designated six new national natural landmark, including the Hanging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ecology","category-national-parks","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}