{"id":173,"date":"2004-09-30T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/colorado-moose-in-new-mexico\/"},"modified":"2004-09-30T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T17:20:14","slug":"colorado-moose-in-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Moose in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Moose wander from Colorado to Heron Lake\" href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/news\/4902.html\">Moose wander from Colorado to Heron Lake<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moose had wandered down into Colorado from Wyoming herds for years, according to the agency&#8217;s Web site. In 1978, Colorado&#8217;s Division of Wildlife decided to introduce the moose formally, transplanting 12 Utah moose to an area near Walden, Colo. The next year, a dozen more moose from Wyoming were put in the Laramie River Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The moose did so well the state began offering limited hunts and Walden was dubbed the moose-watching capital of Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1990s, about 100 moose were released in the upper Rio Grande region of southern Colorado near Creede, according to a history of the moose program on the wildlife division Web site.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado&#8217;s moose are called the Shiras moose or Alces alces shirasi, and are the state&#8217;s largest big-game animal. It is one of three sub-species of North American moose. Adults weigh as much as a medium-size horse, between 800 to 1,200 pounds. A mature bull measures up to 6 feet at the shoulder. The moose rut or breeding season runs mid-September through October.<\/p>\n<p>The last wayward moose to appear in New Mexico was in the mid-1990s near Taos, according to Mower. It was captured and taken north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moose wander from Colorado to Heron Lake Moose had wandered down into Colorado from Wyoming herds for years, according to the agency&#8217;s Web site. In 1978, Colorado&#8217;s Division of Wildlife decided to introduce the moose formally, transplanting 12 Utah moose to an area near Walden, Colo. The next year, a dozen more moose from Wyoming &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=173\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colorado Moose in New Mexico<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}