Wildlife officials have rescued a bull elk by lowering it down a cliff after the animal became entangled in a rope at a popular ice climbing area in southwestern Colorado. A group of ice climbers in Lake City encountered the distressed elk Friday, and a Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologist darted the ungulate with a tranquilizer.
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That’s when the ice climbers who reported the stranded elk came to the rescue by helping state wildlife officers rig a system to lower it to the base of the route. Once the elk was on more level ground, the CPW team reversed the effects of the tranquilizer, and about 12 minutes later the elk awoke and ran off down the snowy canyon.
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