{"id":2445955,"date":"2019-07-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=308845"},"modified":"2019-07-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T06:00:00","slug":"wildlife-on-move-around-snowmass-village-encounters-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/wildlife-on-move-around-snowmass-village-encounters-increasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife on move around Snowmass Village, encounters increasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.4958448753463\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-308845-654\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/EDLbear-svs-061219-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/EDLbear-svs-061219-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | A bear runs through the Snowmass Mall on June 11. An armed Snowmass police officer followed behind to ensure the bear made it back to the trees safely.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>A bear runs through the Snowmass Mall on June 11. An armed Snowmass police officer followed behind to ensure the bear made it back to the trees safely.<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/EDLbear-svs-061219-2.jpg\" alt=\"A bear runs through the Snowmass Mall on June 11. An armed Snowmass police officer followed behind to ensure the bear made it back to the trees safely.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/EDLbear-svs-061219-2-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/EDLbear-svs-061219-2-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"David Krause \/ The Aspen Times | Snowmass Village animal control closed a trail tin June because of a doe and fawn using the area behind a condo complex.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Snowmass Village animal control closed a trail tin June because of a doe and fawn using the area behind a condo complex.<\/strong><br \/>David Krause \/ The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/EDLbear-svs-061219-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Snowmass Village animal control closed a trail tin June because of a doe and fawn using the area behind a condo complex.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/snowmass\/wildlife-on-move-around-snowmass-village-encounters-increasing\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/snowmass\/wildlife-on-move-around-snowmass-village-encounters-increasing\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As weather warms and the wildlife continues to move, there has been an increase in activity around Snowmass Village from foxes to bears and fawns to moose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In recent weeks, the display board coming into Snowmass on Brush Creek Road is warning residents and visitors of more bear activity. People should lock their car doors, and if they see a bear give it space, wildlife officials warn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Earlier in June, Police Chief Brian Olson said they were keeping track of about a half-dozen bears that have been roaming through the village this spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He said last week they continue to watch a couple of bears that are the main ones trying to break into cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Animal services officer Tina White said they received between three and six calls a day about bears as the rain started to hold off and the weather warmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">One had a police escort through the Mall on a quiet Wednesday afternoon in early June. There have been sightings of a mother bear with three cubs of different colors this spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Homeowners should put away bird and hummingbird feeders that are in a bruin\u2019s reach, lock vehicles and secure all trash dumpsters and remember to lock them after using, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cBird feeders are a big attraction and they don\u2019t need to be fed right now anyway,\u201d White said. \u201cBears are good reminder to put stuff away. People are learning the hard way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Signs are up warning of moose activity in the village, especially around the golf course and the Brush Creek valley toward Highway 82.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cMoose are back on course,\u201d she said. \u201cBull moose have been seen crossing the road and moving through. They\u2019re around again. We\u2019re happy they\u2019re here. And people need to give them their space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">One disappointment last month was one of the beavers that lived in the pond at the entrance to town near the rodeo area was found dead on the side of the road. White said there are others in the pond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The beaver carcass, like much road kill in the area, was moved off the road but left for other animals to forage on, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">All of the biking and hiking trails around Snowmass are open after the last of the seasonal trail closures ended June 21. There are some temporary trail closures for wildlife, including one this week on the Melton Ranch Trail near the Woodbridge area because of a doe and fawn resting in the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/snowmass\/wildlife-on-move-around-snowmass-village-encounters-increasing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bear runs through the Snowmass Mall on June 11. An armed Snowmass police officer followed behind to ensure the bear made it back to the trees safely.Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times Snowmass Village animal control closed a trail tin June because of a doe and fawn using the area behind a condo complex.David Krause \/ [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 18:44:38","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}