{"id":67153,"date":"2017-02-03T16:56:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T23:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/miller-middle-school-warns-parents-of-mountain-lion\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T23:56:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T23:56:51","slug":"miller-middle-school-warns-parents-of-mountain-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/miller-middle-school-warns-parents-of-mountain-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Miller Middle School warns parents of mountain lion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bce3b66e-55a3-45c0-b214-d1bf9142bb51&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" alt=\"Miller Middle School is warning parents of a mountain lion that has killed deer at the school. Students who walk to school should be an the lookout and follow certain precautions if they encounter a mountain lion.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Miller Middle School is warning parents of a mountain lion that has killed deer at the school. Students who walk to school should be an the lookout and follow certain precautions if they encounter a mountain lion.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Robin Wiles\/file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Miller Middle School is warning parents of an active mountain lion near the school and surrounding neighborhood in Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The mountain lion has killed deer on Miller Middle School\u2019s campus at 2608 Junction Creek Road, Principal Robert Nuhn wrote Thursday in his letter to parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had confirmation from the (Colorado) Division of Wildlife that is in fact the case,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for CPW was looking into the situation Friday and planned to provide further information.<\/p>\n<p>Parents were advised to inform their children of the situation, especially if they walk to and from school during the early hours or late after school for events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking noise and traveling in groups is good practice,\u201d Nuhn said.<\/p>\n<p>If confronted, students should stay calm and make themselves look as big as possible by raising their arms and backpacks, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne should never run, but back away slowly if ever confronted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It is rare for mountain lions to be active during the day. It is also rare for human-mountain lion interactions or attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Durango Police Department is doing extra patrols early in the morning as a safety precaution, and the school is increasing supervision of students during the lunch hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMostly, I just wanted to make you aware of the situation, especially should your student be a walker to and from school in the early or late hours,\u201d Nuhn wrote in his letter to parents.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>have been found on campus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-67153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67153","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=67153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67153"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=67153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}