Colorado wildlife officials rescue elk tangled in rope on ice climbing route - Houston Herald

Colorado wildlife officials rescue elk tangled in rope on ice climbing route - Houston Herald

Wildlife officials and several climbers 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.Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said a group of ice climbers in Lake City encountered the distressed elk on the morning of Friday, Jan. 3, and a CPW biologist darted the ungulate with a tranquilizer and covered part of its head with a ski mask to protect i…