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Outdoorsman Mike Usalavage posted a video Aug. 17 of wolf pups splashing in a puddle in an aspen grove, seemingly unaware of his truck or his own two dogs.
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In May 2023, a homeowner in Douglas County was astonished to find a partially paralyzed mountain lion taking cover between her basement window well and a spruce tree, dragging itself forward with its front paws. The year-old female couldn’t stand up, a phenomenon clear in the video the owner took while safely inside the house.
Wildlife officers tranquilized the debilitated lion, then euthanized her with a gunshot to the chest to protect brain cells for a necropsy.
After a year of studying the animal, researchers are declaring her the first North American case of “staggering disease” in a mountain lion.
The disease, caused by variants of the rustrela virus, makes a virulent attack on muscles and the nervous system and is more frequent in Europe. It was known best in European cats, especially in Sweden, but has now been found to attack mammals including cats, horses and possums.
🎥 Erica Rhinehart, via Colorado State University
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All four gates opened on the Morrow Point Dam in Montrose County for the first time since 2017 last week, providing a spectacular display of force as water spills into the Gunnison River, the fifth largest tributary to the Colorado River.
While the flow from 15-foot-wide gates 468 feet above was intriguing to tourists and locals, the water was intended to simulate spring runoff conditions to protect the Colorado pikeminnow, razorback sucker and three other endangered fish species.
📷 William Woody, Special to The Colorado Sun
Hail storm pummels parts of Colorado.mp4
Knee-deep hail in small Colorado town calls for heavy equipment and snow shovels to clear.
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Pedestrian and bike deaths' share of road fatalities in Colorado have grown since 2002.
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“If there’s anything we can do to kind of keep the press out of this, that would be great.”
The Colorado State Patrol released footage of House Minority Leader Mike Lynch's 2022 arrest on Friday to The Colorado Sun in response to an open records request.
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More and more people are seeking out alpine lakes to go ice skating. This woman is trying to make sure they don't die.
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How quickly can frostbite set in?
At minus 5 degrees and a wind speed of 30 mph, you could get frostbite in about 10 minutes, according to UCHealth. More: https://cosun.co/3hBFwQa
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Five gray wolves from Oregon were released in Grand County on Monday, three years after Colorado voted to reintroduce the animal by the end of 2023.
It is the first time a state — not the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — has introduced an endangered species into wildland in the U.S.
Dan Gibbs, the executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, said "it's been blood, sweat and tears" to reach the release Monday. He said if any wildlife agency in the country was capable of being the first to release an endangered species, it's his team. "I could not be more proud," he said.
A second group of five wolves will be released in the same area, somewhere in Eagle, Grand or Summit counties. The Colorado plan calls for releasing 30 to 50 wolves on the Western Slope in the next three to five years.
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Downtown Vacancy Rates.mp4
The Denver office market continues to struggle more than three years after office workers headed home to work remotely.
Office vacancy rates in downtown Denver hit a high of 30.6% in the third quarter, the first time they've been above 30% since 2000, according to real estate brokerage firm CBRE. The overall Denver metro area saw office vacancy rates increase to 22.8%.
Since 2022, the percentage of full-time workers who are completely remote has dropped and stabilized around 20%, Real Capital Solutions Director of Research Dan Sorrells said. Meanwhile, the percentage of hybrid workers has been rising, now between 40% and 45%, and may also stabilize.
But whether companies have adopted a remote or hybrid workforce, or have seen business suffer due to the economic decline, that's created other issues, like "zombie buildings," or office properties that are leased but aren't being used.
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Behind the scenes of how illustrator Peter Moore makes his cartoons.
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Colorado's prime working age adults shrinking.mp4
Why do Colorado's open jobs outnumber people who are looking for one? Age.
The size of the labor force is very much connected to the state’s population. And even though we’re still growing faster than many other states, we’re getting older and have more workers doing things like, well, retiring.
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