{"id":97727,"date":"2018-09-28T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T03:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bear-injured-during-416-fire-doing-really-well\/"},"modified":"2018-09-28T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T03:29:00","slug":"bear-injured-during-416-fire-doing-really-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bear-injured-during-416-fire-doing-really-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear injured during 416 Fire \u2018doing really well\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:a02d60b3-db04-4577-968a-e50525c0bace --><\/p>\n<p>A bear cub whose paws were burned during the 416 Fire \u201cis doing really well,\u201d a Colorado Parks and Wildlife official said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The bear, who remains nameless, has grown from a mere 10\u00bd pounds to a healthy 60 pounds in the past three months, said Heath Kehm, southwest deputy regional manager for CPW.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer paws are completely healed now,\u201d he said. \u201cShe\u2019s very healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/229614-baby-bear-undergoes-rehab-for-burned-paws\">Firefighters first found the bear<\/a> while battling the <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/tags\/1475-416-fire\">416 Fire<\/a> in the Junction Creek area on the southwestern end of the fire that burned 54,129 acres. After noticing the cub alone for a few days, firefighters called CPW officials.<\/p>\n<p>CPW tranquilized and captured the bear June 22 after finding her alone in a tree, her paws burned by the fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/tags\/1475-416-fire\">After weeks of rehabilitation<\/a> at a center in Del Norte, which included salving and bandaging her paws, the young sow was put in a pen with other bear cubs that are also being rehabilitated. Durango\u2019s CPW office rehabilitates about 16 bears each year, Kehm said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P3FnlIk_s7M\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>CPW expects to care for the cub until at least January, when officials plan to release the bear into the wild, Kehm said.<\/p>\n<p>She needs to gain about 20 more pounds before she can be released, he said. Colorado sows can grow up to 250 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Once the bear is released, CPW is hands-off, Kehm said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, it\u2019ll be the last time that we interact with that bear,\u201d he said of releasing the young sow. \u201cWe want it to be a good, wild, healthy bear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:bhauff@durangoherald.com\">bhauff@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d8e5865c-5422-4e15-b70c-11faf7cadf02&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d8e5865c-5422-4e15-b70c-11faf7cadf02&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d8e5865c-5422-4e15-b70c-11faf7cadf02&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d8e5865c-5422-4e15-b70c-11faf7cadf02&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" alt=\"This female cub was found with bad burns on its paws because of the 416 Fire. It is expected to make a full recovery and be released early next year.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">This female cub was found with bad burns on its paws because of the 416 Fire. It is expected to make a full recovery and be released early next year.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Joe Lewandowski\/Colorado Parks and Wildlife file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Parks and Wildlife plans to release young sow in January<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[2838,1332,4259],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-97727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-416-fire","tag-bears","tag-newsletter-sign-up"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97727","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=97727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97727"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=97727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}