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  • Another hunter dies in southern Colorado wilderness, sheriff says

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    Another hunter died Friday in southern Colorado’s Conejos County, just over a week after two missing elk hunters who caught national attention were found dead, according to the sheriff’s office.

    Conejos County dispatchers received a call for help from hunters in a remote area of the South San Juan Wilderness shortly before 11:30 p.m. Friday, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. At that time, CPR was already in progress.

    Sheriff Garth Crowther immediately activated the Conejos County Search and Rescue team, but the victim, a 54-year-old man from Tennessee, had already died when rescuers arrived, the news release stated.

    “Due to hazardous nighttime conditions, it was not safe to conduct a recovery mission with the Flight for Life helicopter,” sheriff’s officials stated in the release.

    Search teams and the helicopter returned to the area early Saturday morning and recovered the man’s body. The Conejos County Coroner’s Office will release his identity and cause of death.

    Everyone entering the wilderness needs to be cautious and well-prepared for the challenges of the backcountry, Crowther said in the release. There is no threat to the hunting public or those observing the fall colors in the area.

    The two elk hunters who died earlier this month — 25-year-old Andrew Porter of Asheville, N.C., and 25-year-old Ian Stasko of Salt Lake City — were killed by lightning, Conejos County Coroner Richard Martin said.

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  • Another hunter has died in the Conejos County wilderness, sheriff’s office says

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    A third hunter has died in Conejos County, the same area of the southern Colorado wilderness where two hunters were killed by lightning earlier this month.

    The Conejos County Sheriff’s Office said a 54-year-old man from Tennessee died either late Friday or early Saturday. A group of hunters called for help just before 11:30 p.m. Friday in a “remote area” in the South San Juan Wilderness, telling the sheriff’s office that CPR was being performed.

    By the time a search and rescue team arrived at the scene, the man had died, the sheriff’s office said. A helicopter recovery wasn’t immediately possible “due to hazardous nighttime conditions” but was done early Saturday morning.

    The man’s cause of death was not immediately known Saturday night, but the sheriff’s office said there was “no threat to the hunting public or those observing fall colors in the area.”

    The El Paso County Coroner will perform an autopsy. The victim’s name has not been released.

    Two out-of-state elk hunters – Andrew Porter of North Carolina and Ian Stasko of Utah, both 25 years old – were found dead in a separate incident Sept. 18 in Conejos County just a few miles from the Colorado-New Mexico border. The two hunters had last been heard from a week earlier, and it was later determined they died from a lightning strike.

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    In Jackson County near the state’s northern border, another hunter – a 57-year-old Illinois man – was rescued after spending two days in wintry conditions in the Rawah Wilderness.

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