{"id":13802,"date":"2015-06-17T16:57:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T23:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/working-to-maintain-preserve-habitat-parks\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T03:20:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T10:20:28","slug":"working-to-maintain-preserve-habitat-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/working-to-maintain-preserve-habitat-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Working to maintain, preserve habitat, parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>An opinion piece in the June 5 Reporter (&#8220;State Senate diverts money toward favored projects&#8221;) suggested that the proposed Senate capital budget prioritized local recreation over critical habitat preservation. The reality is more complex.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I am working with local citizens and stakeholders, such as those from the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition, to update language for the capital budget.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Our goal is to continue to support and prioritize the incredible range of existing projects in a way that better fits the realities of 2015.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Working together, I am confident we will maintain our local parks while still protecting irreplaceable natural areas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Kent, 33rd Legislative District<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opinion piece in the June 5 Reporter (&#8220;State Senate diverts money toward favored projects&#8221;) suggested that the proposed Senate capital budget prioritized local recreation over critical habitat preservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13802"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}