{"id":61478,"date":"2014-03-07T01:02:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T08:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lynx-return-to-the-high-country\/"},"modified":"2014-03-07T08:02:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T08:02:13","slug":"lynx-return-to-the-high-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lynx-return-to-the-high-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx return to the high country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=400350f3-9c85-4562-a3ca-96c6801d3904&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1509\" height=\"1018\" alt=\"A male lynx crosses a road just outside of Silverton during a snow squall on Saturday. The elusive cats were reintroduced in Colorado in 1999.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A male lynx crosses a road just outside of Silverton during a snow squall on Saturday. The elusive cats were reintroduced in Colorado in 1999.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Ray Dileo\/Silverton Standard &amp; the Miner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A reclusive male lynx photographed crossing a highway near Silverton on Saturday could be a more common sight for a couple of months, Patt  Dorsey, the southwest regional wildlife manager for the Colorado Parks and Wildlife, said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s mating season, so males may be on the move looking for females,\u201d Dorsey said. \u201cIt\u2019s not unusual to find them around Silverton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officials are calling the reintroduction of Canada lynx into the Weminuche Wilderness in 1999 a success, Dorsey said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been several generations of lynx born in Colorado,\u201d Dorsey said. \u201cThey have migrated to Silverton, Telluride and Creede.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lynx photographed Saturday didn\u2019t have a tracking collar such as the first generation of lynx. So, unless the collar fell off or was torn off, the lynx likely is a Colorado native, Dorsey said.<\/p>\n<p>Lynx are reclusive, living usually above 8,000-feet elevation and subsisting mainly on snowshoe hares, Dorsey said. They will eat other animals such as squirrels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:daler@durangoherald.com\">daler@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019re shy animals, but they\u2019re seen on occasion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,327,603],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-61478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-silverton","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61478","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=61478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61478"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=61478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}