{"id":49494,"date":"2021-01-05T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-parks-and-wildlife-rescues-orphaned-cub-north-of-durango\/"},"modified":"2021-01-06T02:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T02:12:00","slug":"colorado-parks-and-wildlife-rescues-orphaned-cub-north-of-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-parks-and-wildlife-rescues-orphaned-cub-north-of-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Parks and Wildlife rescues orphaned cub north of Durango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=58b60358-1627-4323-9415-d943765636ae&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2276\" alt=\"A cub wandering alone north of Durango was rescued this week by Colorado Parks and Wildlife.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A cub wandering alone north of Durango was rescued this week by Colorado Parks and Wildlife.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>An orphaned baby bear was rescued this week north of Durango, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>CPW spokesman Joe Lewandowski said in an email to <em>The Durango Herald<\/em> that a female cub was spotted wandering around for a few days in the Electra Lake area, about 20 miles north of Durango along U.S. Highway 550.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt had been getting into bird feeders in the area,\u201d Lewandowski said.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in the area reported the situation to CPW, and on Monday, two wildlife officers captured the bear while she was hiding under a porch.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7493699e-3d65-483c-ad10-d2205370f1fa&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"A cub that was rescued had injuries to its paws and was emaciated.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A cub that was rescued had injuries to its paws and was emaciated.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e266798f-a8a7-4c45-9d71-72b85d63369b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"A cub rescued north of Durango was taken to a rehab center in Frisco, where it will spend the winter.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A cub rescued north of Durango was taken to a rehab center in Frisco, where it will spend the winter.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>After inspection, it was found the cub had injuries: She was emaciated and had cuts on her paws, Lewandowski said.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officials decided to take the baby bear to the Frisco Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Frisco, where she will be held throughout the winter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not unusual for bears to go on walkabouts occasionally during the winter,\u201d Lewandowski said. \u201cBut they usually find a way back to their dens. This one didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the third cub near Durango that CPW has rescued in recent years. A baby bear was rescued during the 416 Fire in summer 2018, and another cub was rescued during the East Canyon Fire last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>injuries to paws, was emaciated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1332,28,29,603],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bears","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49494"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}