{"id":754631,"date":"2026-07-10T12:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754631\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:33:11","slug":"wildlife-officers-release-cinnamon-bear-found-in-pueblo-back-into-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754631\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife officers release cinnamon bear found in Pueblo back into the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PUEBLO, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; Colorado Parks and Wildlife released a cinnamon bear that was spotted in Pueblo on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Pueblo Fire Department, crews assisted Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers and Pueblo Police in capturing the bear after it was spotted near La Vista Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">CPW said the bear was immobilized and then later given a wake-up drug. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bear is approximately 1 year old and 90 pounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Early Thursday evening, wildlife officers said they released the bear back into a \u201cbetter bear habitat\u201d about two and a half hours south of the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wildlife officers said the historically low snowpack and nearby fires have brought the bears closer to our communities in search of safety and food. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KKTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUEBLO, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; Colorado Parks and Wildlife released a cinnamon bear that was spotted in Pueblo on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-754631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754631","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=754631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}