Colorado’s avalanche danger this month has hovered around the moderate and considerable levels, and experts say that’s when most fatal avalanche accidents happen.
Armed with a stunner and fish nets, aquatics biologists Cory Noble and Josh Nehring (left to right) with Colorado Parks and Wildlife wade up Bear Creek to capture Greenback Cutthroat Trout on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. In the 1930’s, the Greenback Cutthroat Trout was thought to be extinct. But the rare fish was not extinct in the wild, partly because an innkeeper in the 1870’s had stocked a pond near Bear Creek with Greenback Cutthroat Trout. The biologists were capturing males and females for the purpose of artificial spawning and eventually increasing the population of the trout by restocking at various locations in the state. The Greenback Cutthroat Trout is the state fish of Colorado. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)
Garfield County Commissioners voiced concern Monday over the potential to speed up wolf reintroduction in the state, but Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say they have not yet proposed a
10 Wild Animal Encounters in Northern Colorado in 2020
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But the craziness didn t stop there. Whether it was a piano-playing bear or some tough-talking turkeys, Colorado s wildlife did its best to keep us on our toes this year.
In honor of our furry (and feathery) friends, here are 10 memorable wild animal encounters that occurred in Northern Colorado in 2020:
10 Wild Animal Encounters in Northern Colorado in 2020
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