5 orphaned bear cubs found in southern Colorado to be released into the wild

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - Several bear cubs that were orphaned over the summer will be released back into the wild on Thursday.

According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), three orphaned bear cubs were recovered in a Broadmoor area neighborhood in southwest Colorado Springs in July; two others were recovered in a neighborhood north of Woodland Park in August.

Wildlife officers will retrieve the five cubs from CPW’s Frisco Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation Facility near Del Norte in the San Luis Valley and take them to two separate locations within the region.

Wildlife rehabilitation staff have fitted two of the cubs with GPS ear tag transmitters supplied through a data gathering partnership with the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

The zoo’s Member Conservation Vote approved funding for t