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ASPEN — An underweight, yearling black bear, found Monday on the back of Aspen Mountain, is now under the care of a wildlife rehabilitation center near Silt.
A woman found the bear and brought it to the Aspen Animal Shelter, according to ReRe Baker, animal safety director for Pitkin County.
Baker took the caged bear to the Colorado Division of Wildlife office in Glenwood Springs, where a volunteer with the Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife Foundation’s rehabilitation center picked it up and took it to the Silt facility.
The bear is a year old, and should have come out of hibernation weighing 30-plus pounds, according to the center’s founder, Nanci Limbach. The animal weighs 13 pounds.
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