ASPEN – Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials tranquilized a mother bear and her two cubs after they had found their way into a tree on an Aspen pedestrian mall on Thursday.
The Aspen Times reported the groggy mother slowly slid down the tree trunk and into a tarp held by law enforcement officials. Once she was wrapped up and put in a cage, Aspen Fire Department officials used a cherry-picker basket to get to the sedated cubs.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife area manager Perry Will says the mother bear and her two cubs appeared healthy and will be transported to a “very close to the Utah border in very good habitat.”
Will says the bears were in Aspen probably for the crab apples because food in the mountains is scarce this year.
