{"id":1385991,"date":"2019-01-27T20:20:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T03:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=964591"},"modified":"2019-01-27T20:20:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T03:20:05","slug":"bear-cub-burned-in-colorado-wildfire-released-into-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/bear-cub-burned-in-colorado-wildfire-released-into-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear cub burned in Colorado wildfire released into wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/AP19026686749000-620x411.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium-large size-medium-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/AP19026686749000-620x411.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/AP19026686749000-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/AP19026686749000-325x215.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/AP19026686749000.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>DURANGO, Colo. (AP) \u2014 An orphaned bear cub burned by a Colorado wildfire has been released back into the wild.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/260420-baby-bear-burned-in-416-fire-released-into-the-wild\">The Durango Herald<\/a>\u00a0reports that the cub was placed in the mountains west of Durango on Friday, asleep inside a man-made den along with a second orphaned cub. Officials hope they will not wake up until spring when food is more available.<\/p>\n<p>The injured cub&#8217;s feet were severely burned in a wildfire that raged north of Durango last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said the cub weighed only 10 pounds when she came to a wildlife rehabilitation center but gained 80 pounds. Once the cub was able to walk, she was moved to a pen with other cubs.<\/p>\n<p>The center limits human interaction, giving the cubs a better chance at survival when released.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/bear-cub-burned-in-colorado-wildfire-released-into-wild\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURANGO, Colo. (AP) \u2014 An orphaned bear cub burned by a Colorado wildfire has been released back into the wild. The Durango Herald\u00a0reports that the cub was placed in the mountains west of Durango on Friday, asleep inside a man-made den along with a second orphaned cub. Officials hope they will not wake up until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-30 23:34:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}