Officials with Colorado Parks and Wildlife are asking the public’s help in locating a bull elk with a rubber tire stuck around its neck. The elk has been seen like this for over a year. The organization shared a video they captured on a trail camera in early August of the young elk with a tire stuck around its neck walking around the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest. Rangers from the park say that this is the seventh time surveillance footage has seen the stuck animal in the past 12 months. They fear the elk may not survive if removal of the tire does not happen soon. Due to his young age, officials are afraid that the tire will restrict its airways when the elk grows, choking it to death. “As he continues to grow, he is not going to have the room that he has now to eat freely, to breathe and drink,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesperson Jason Clay said. Rangers are also afraid that other wild animals will mistake the tire as a sign of aggression...MORE
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