A young bull moose that had been wandering around Minturn since mid-January was found dead near the Game Creek trailhead on Sunday.
Lifelong Minturn resident Jim Gonzales received a call about the 400-pound moose’s death on Sunday night. On Monday morning, Gonzales and Devin Duval, district wildlife manager with , removed the moose. Gonzales posted about the moose’s death on Facebook, and the post blew up.
While the cause of death is unknown at this time — the body was sent for a necropsy at Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s health lab in Fort Collins, but the results will take time — Gonzales suspects the animal died from either starvation or ingesting something toxic.
“Without knowing how this moose died we can’t say if it could have been preventable or not,” said Rachael Gonzales, Colorado Parks and Wildlife public information officer, in an email to the Vail Daily. “Itap important to remember that animals can die in many ways, whether by natural causes, predation from other animals or something else.”
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