Time to stow away your swings, hammocks, volleyball nets, tomato cages
The elk rut in the Estes Valley is about to begin and the Colorado Parks and Wildlife now urges us to please look around our homes, yards, and businesses for items that the elk may get tangled up in.
Just this week a large bull got his antlers caught in a long length of cable wire. The bull walked by and tried to spar with the cable, causing the entanglement. Passers-by called Colorado Parks and Wildlife to get help, and a wildlife officer arrived, drug immobilized the bull, and freed him. Luckily, this story had a happy ending — but if help doesn’t arrive quickly enough, elk have been known to struggle, risk getting stuck on an obstacle, and can tragically die in these entrapments…