CPW rehabilitates young bear injured and orphaned
DENVER – After a rough beginning to life, a yearling black bear injured during the Camreon Peak Fire is back roaming the Colorado Rocky Mountains with a new lease on life.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) treated and rehabilitated this young bear for nearly five months before releasing it back into the mountains in Larimer County on May 5. Special circumstances and collaboration that spanned across landowners, wildlife officers, state wildlife health and wildlife rehabilitation officials allowed for the unique opportunity to treat this bear, but its natural survival instincts is really what kept it going.
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Injured bear found after Cameron Peak fire weighed just 16 pounds, now it s back in the wild
When found in December the bear weighed just 16 pounds. When released earlier this month it was up to 93 pounds, CPW said. Author: Janet Oravetz (9News) Updated: 1:32 PM MDT May 14, 2021
LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. A yearling black bear cub that was injured during the Cameron Peak Fire in Larimer County last year and weighed just 16 pounds when he was found was nursed back to health over the last few months and finally released back into the wild, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW).
“This bear s drive to survive did most of the work and we just gave it a little boost,” said Kristin Cannon, deputy regional manager for CPW s Northeast Region. “This bear went through an awful lot in its first year of life, let s hope humans can now help keep it wild by not rewarding it with our food sources and lowering its chances of survival.”
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