{"id":68410,"date":"2025-07-16T23:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/68410\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T23:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:37:09","slug":"bull-moose-captured-wednesday-morning-in-greeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/68410\/","title":{"rendered":"Bull moose captured Wednesday morning in Greeley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bull moose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com\/2025\/07\/15\/moose-evans-weld-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first spotted in Evans on Tuesday morning<\/a> that then evaded capture in Greeley later in the day was finally sedated and relocated Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The moose was captured around 10 a.m. and relocated to a \u201cmore antler-friendly location,\u201d according to a social media post from the Greeley Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The moose was spotted Tuesday morning in and around the Grapevine Hollow neighborhood in Evans, eventually heading north into Greeley\u2019s Josephine B. Jones Park later that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>He evaded capture Tuesday night, prompting Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials to continue relocation efforts into Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>This was the third straight July a moose has made its way to Weld County. Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com\/2024\/07\/16\/1-of-3-moose-spotted-around-northern-weld-county-earlier-this-month-successfully-relocated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three moose were spotted in a handful of smaller Weld County communities<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com\/2023\/07\/19\/its-not-a-common-sight-wildlife-officers-relocate-moose-on-the-loose-in-downtown-greeley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2023, a moose was seen near the Weld County Jail<\/a> in northeast Greeley.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com\/2018\/08\/25\/greeley-moose-captured-taken-to-mountains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last sighting was in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: July 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM MDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bull moose first spotted in Evans on Tuesday morning that then evaded capture in Greeley later in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4439,5295,4440,38886,1370,728,50,159,67,132,68,48433,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-68410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-colorado","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-front-range","11":"tag-greeley","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-weld-county","20":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114865546468673957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68410","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=68410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}