WARD – Authorities are trying to recover the body of a man who fell off a cliff near Ward.

The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office says the man was hiking with friends near Mitchell Lake on Saturday when he fell to his death.

Authorities say they had to delay recovery of the body until Sunday because of darkness and difficult terrain.

The coroner’s office and detectives are investigating, but foul play is not suspected. The man has not been identified.

Bear’s killing upsets Front Range residents

COLORADO SPRINGS – Residents of Cheyenne Mountain Estates are upset after a bear was found shot to death in the front yard of a Colorado Springs home.

Residents say the bear roamed the area and was part of their lives.

The 400-pound bear was found dead Friday in Alice Tinder’s front yard.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife says the person who shot the bear could be fined up to $20,000.

Pueblo-area ranch will keep on wrangling

PUEBLO – An effort to preserve the historic BX Ranch east of Pueblo has been completed.

The Palmer Land Trust partnered with Great Outdoors Colorado, the Nature Conservancy, the Gates Family Foundation and private funding to purchase a conservation easement on the 25,000-acre ranch.

The easement means the property will continue as a working ranch.

According to The Pueblo Chieftain, the BX Ranch, south of Boone, was homesteaded by James Ellison England in 1867. It’s located near state land and connects with other privately held conservation easements to the south to form a corridor of open space.

Eaglets lose mother, taken to rehab

LONGMONT – A pair of young eagles that lost their mother to electrocution in May ventured away from their nest near Longmont and state wildlife officials took one to a rehabilitation center.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers found the eagle sitting on the ground near the nest. It was having trouble flying and was being picked on by its sibling.

According to the Longmont Times-Call, the bird was dehydrated and hungry, but in otherwise good shape.

The mother bald eagle was found electrocuted atop a power pole on May 26. Officials later determined that the mother eagle had been holding a fish in its talons, and the fish touched a live wire on a power pole.

Colorado scientists watching Pluto probe

BOULDER – Colorado scientists have a lot riding on the space mission scheduled to rendezvous Tuesday with Pluto, including the imaging instrument providing the “eyes” of the New Horizons mission, a stardust counter built and operated by CU-Boulder students, and the power generator for the spacecraft.

Associated Press