{"id":105366,"date":"2025-08-23T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/105366\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:40:06","slug":"trail-reopened-in-tupper-lake-after-sighting-of-strange-behaving-moose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/105366\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail reopened in Tupper Lake after sighting of strange-behaving moose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has reopened the Goodman Mountain Trail near Tupper Lake.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has reopened the Goodman Mountain Trail near Tupper Lake.<\/p>\n<p>The trail was closed in June after a bull moose was spotted showing unusual behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife biologists monitored the animal for months, but its condition did start to decline so severely that it was humanely euthanized earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The moose\u2019s remains are being tested by the DEC\u2019s Wildlife Health Unit and the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab to determine what caused its illness and strange behavior.<\/p>\n<p>With the trail back open, hikers are being reminded to follow the \u201cleave no trace\u201d principle, including respect wildlife, stay on the trails and carry out your trash.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/tupper-lake\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tupper Lake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has reopened the Goodman Mountain Trail near Tupper Lake. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,49257,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-105366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-tupper-lake","10":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}