Colorado releases two lynx into wild.(Nation)

From: The Washington Times | Date: February 4, 1999| Author: Richardson, Valerie | Copyright information

DENVER - After a 26-year absence, the lynx returned to Colorado yesterday as wildlife biologists released two of the tuft-eared bobcats into the wild as part of the state's ambitious lynx-recovery program.

The two females were released on private property along Wolf Creek Pass in a remote corner of the south San Juan Mountains along the Continental Divide. About 40 reporters, state biologists and other observers were on hand to witness the bobcats' departure from their ...

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