{"id":157984,"date":"2025-09-20T23:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157984\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T23:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:06:19","slug":"part-of-lions-trail-closed-due-to-cougar-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157984\/","title":{"rendered":"Part of Lion&#8217;s Trail closed due to cougar activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wildlife officials confirm there is a cougar guarding a deer kill in the area between Black Bear Bridge and the Marysville entrance. <\/p>\n<p>The City of Kimberley has temporarily closed public access to the Lion&#8217;s Trail between Black Bear Bridge and the Marysville entrance as a safety precaution due to cougar activity in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a City release issued at around 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, wildlife officials have confirmed that there is a cougar guarding a deer kill in the area and may therefore behave defensively if approached.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Residents are asked to respect the closure signs and avoid the area until further notice and to watch the City social media pages for updates as to when it&#8217;s safe to reopen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you for helping us keep both trail users and wildlife safe,&#8221; the City said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildlife officials confirm there is a cougar guarding a deer kill in the area between Black Bear Bridge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-157984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}