{"id":401113,"date":"2025-11-24T10:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401113\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:24:20","slug":"cpw-investigates-illegal-killing-of-mountain-lion-in-gunnison-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401113\/","title":{"rendered":"CPW investigates illegal killing of mountain lion in Gunnison County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is investigating the illegal killing of a female mountain lion found in Taylor Canyon near Almont.<\/p>\n<p>The carcass, shot through the chest, was discovered near Gunnison City Mountain Park group campsites.<\/p>\n<p>The lion was part of CPW\u2019s mountain lion density study in the Gunnison Basin.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763979860_154_\" alt=\"mountainlion2.png\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"701\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CPW<\/p>\n<p>The wildlife agency said the lion was poached out of season, three days before legal hunting began.<\/p>\n<p>CPW is reminding those who kill wildlife in self-defense that they should immediately report the death to the nearest CPW office.<\/p>\n<p>CPW urges anyone with information to contact District Wildlife Manager Codi Prior at 970-641-7075, email codi.prior@state.co.us, or the Gunnison wildlife office at 970-641-7060.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous tips can be submitted through Operation Game Thief at 877-265-6648 or game.thief@state.co.us.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Coloradans making a difference | Denver7 featured videos<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-left\">Denver7 is committed to making a difference in our community by standing up for what&#8217;s right, listening, lending a helping hand and following through on promises. See that work in action, in the videos above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is investigating the illegal killing of a female mountain lion found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":401114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[68404,189908,1666,189909,189910,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-401113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-cpw","9":"tag-gunnison-county","10":"tag-mountain-lion","11":"tag-poacched","12":"tag-poached-mountain-lion","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115604191519324305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}