{"id":4060,"date":"2026-08-24T08:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4060"},"modified":"2026-08-24T08:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:03:36","slug":"bear-found-in-tree-in-denvers-platt-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4060","title":{"rendered":"Bear found in tree in Denver\u2019s Platt Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Denver\u2019s Platt Park residents on Sunday morning came upon an unusual discovery: A male bear hanging out in a tree.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4058\">Renck: Katy Winge becoming lead analyst on Nuggets broadcasts lets her honor her father<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wildlife authorities say they found the 100-pound mammal, roughly 18 months old, in a tree near East Louisiana Avenue and South Pennsylvania Street.<\/p>\n<p>Kara Van Hoose, a Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesperson, said the agency is unsure how the bear got into Denver, since they hadn\u2019t taken any reports of bear activity in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officials tranquilized the bear, catching him in a tarp, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Now he\u2019s \u201con his way back to where bears should be \u2014 not Denver,\u201d Van Hoose said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4056\">William Hood selected as Colorado Supreme Court\u2019s next chief justice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coloradans have experienced\u00a0almost double the number of bear encounters this year, and the state is on pace to have the highest number of bear reports since CPW implemented its statewide digital reporting system in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Bears are coming closer to human-occupied areas searching for food this year due to widespread drought, which has affected their normal food-gathering activities.<\/p>\n<p><em>Get more Colorado news by signing up for our daily Your Morning Dozen email newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4054\">After ranked-choice voting defeat, new Colorado group readies for more election reform debates<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildlife authorities say they found the 100-pound mammal, roughly 1.5 years old, in a tree near East Louisiana Avenue and South Pennsylvania Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorado-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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