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An adult female grizzly bear was shot and killed on Saturday after charging a pair of Kalispell elk hunters and injuring one of them near the Continental Divide about four miles south of Marias Pass on U.S. Highway 2.
Anthony Willits, 31, and Gregory Louden, 29, had earlier in the day shot a bull elk, taken out a portion of the meat, and were returning to the carcass when they encountered the sow and two cubs.
The men reported that as the sow grizzly charged them they shot it once before it bit Willits in the lower left leg below the knee. Louden shot the bear three more times, killing it.
In July, a grizzly defending her cubs attacked a couple hiking in Yellowstone National Park, it killing the man.
Again in Yellowstone, a man hiking alone was fatally mauled by a grizzly bear in August. In September, a Montana black bear hunter was attacked by a grizzly bear he mistakenly wounded. The guy's hunting partner tried to save him but ended up shooting and killing him.
Brian Hubkey of Carson Valley, Nev., sees the chance to stalk a bear with a bow and arrow as an opportunity for outdoor adventure he can share with his family.
"If we're successful, great. If not, so be it," Hubkey says of Nevada's first legal hunt for black bears.
He and others are on the hunt for bears in Nevada's mountains, now that the state has become the latest to establish a bear hunting season.
SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) - Police say a man has been hospitalized after being mauled by a bear in the southern edge of Superior.
The Duluth News Tribune reports Superior police officers were called to the southern edge of town on a report of a mauling about 8 p.m. Saturday.
Police say the man was with a female hunting partner who had set up over some bait, hoping to take a deer, when the bear appeared. The man tried to chase it off, but the animal turned on him.
The bear "born on the internet" is believed to have been shot and killed by a hunter in Minnesota, US.
Gallatin County District Judge Mike Salvagni on Monday handed an Alaskan fishing guide a 20-year prison sentence, suspending all 20 years, for poaching elk, deer and antelope over several years. The judge also ordered Michael P. Duby, 37, to pay $15,500 in fines and restitution.
Duby pleaded no contest in April to four felony charges of illegal possession of game animals, saying he was "unable to admit" to any of the charges because federal charges are pending and a guilty plea could incriminate him.
BOISE, Idaho - An Idaho elk hunter who apparently stumbled across a bear's resting spot Saturday was hospitalized after the animal bit him and broke his right arm, officials said.
Richard Paini, 40, suffered puncture wounds and an injured left hand along with the broken forearm in the attack at about 9 a.m. He was taken to the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls.
The dangers of hunting where others have hunted were illustrated this week when an Interior Alaska grizzly bear mauled 65-year-old Donald "Skip" Sanford of Anchorage. Sanford hunting companion Monty Dyson said Thursday that the attack happened after Sanford went back to the site of an earlier moose kill along the Maclaren River, about 250 miles northeast of Alaska's largest city.
Sanford is still recovering from the attack in an Anchorage hospital, and is in no mood to talk.
A 39-year-old hunter killed by a wounded grizzly bear yelled out to draw the 400-pound male bear toward him in an effort to keep it from attacking his young hunting partner, the man's family said.
"They both shot it and it kept coming," Steve Stevenson's mom, Janet Price, said on Saturday. "Steve yelled at it to try and distract it, and it swung around and took him down. It's what my son would have done automatically, for anybody."
Four years ago the Alaska Legislature offered Gov. Sarah Palin and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game a special deal: $400,000 to "educate" voters on predator control. The money -- spent mostly on a video, glossy brochures and public presentations -- was meant to persuade and reassure Alaskans that predator control is essential and effective.
Firmly convinced he's doing the right thing, the new director of the Division of Wildlife Conservation at Fish and Game, Corey Rossi, is taking predator control to new levels. For the first time since statehood, Alaska has targeted grizzly bears for large-scale population reductions, not by hunters but by agents of the state.
DULUTH - Hunters participating in Minnesota's bear season, which opens Thursday, are asked to avoid shooting radio-collared research bears. The bears are marked with large colorful ear tags or colorful streamers and should be easy to spot.
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources researchers are monitoring about 35 radio-collared black bears, most of them in northwestern Minnesota, especially near Thief Lake Wildlife Management Area and the Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Florida's black bears have made a dramatic comeback and Florida wildlife officials said they just took the bear off the threatened species list.
There are now an estimated 3,000 black bears across the state and officials said that could open the door for a bear hunting season in Florida.
EDMONTON - A grizzly bear cub had to be euthanized after it was shot and left to die near Rocky Mountain House.
Fish and Wildlife officers were alerted to the wounded bear May 26 by a member of the public, said Darcy Whiteside, spokesman for Alberta Sustainable Resource Development. The yearling grizzly was found lying on Nordegg River Road, northwest of Rocky Mountain House, he said. It had been shot in the shoulder. Officers were forced to put it down. He said the attack appears to have been poaching.
An Alaskan hunter who was mauled by a grizzly bear over the weekend was clinging to life in a medically-induced coma, health official said.
Wesley Perkins, 54, an experienced hunter and former volunteer fire chief, was hunting with a group of pals near his home city of Nome on Sunday when he was attacked.
Being "bear aware" has been on the minds of many people in recent days, with a reported attack on hikers near Bozeman on Friday and another incident reported near Seeley Lake on Saturday.
Friday's attack on two hikers by a grizzly bear near Big Sky resulted in non-life threatening injuries to the two people.
The Colorado Wildlife Commission approved a regulation May 5 that bans hunters from hunting, killing or otherwise harassing bears in their dens.
The issue first came to the attention of the Colorado Division of Wildlife in November 2010, when Craig resident Richard Kendall tracked and killed a 703-pound black bear in its den in Moffat County.
A member of a prominent family-owned Prince George, B.C., lumber company has been fined $2,500 following an investigation by provincial conservation officers into a citizen's complaint of bear-baiting in a remote B.C. park.
Kevin Novak, who is with Dunkley Lumber Ltd., pleaded guilty May 4 in provincial court to one count of placing bait.
Novak placed fish parts above the high-water mark, potentially attracting dangerous wildlife to an estuary in Foch-Gilttoyees Provincial Park in Douglas Channel, about 40 kilometres southwest of Kitimat, B.C.
In his signature modernist poem The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot famously wrote that "April is the cruelest month." For large carnivores in British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest it unquestionably is, for it marks the start of the spring recreational hunting season. After a long tough winter, many grizzlies, black bears, wolves and cougars are girding themselves for the onslaught of "sportsmen" wielding high-powered rifles in search of "trophies." For these top predators, April signals a time to start dodging bullets from the ultimate super predator -- Homo sapiens.
As grizzly bears venture out of their dens in Western and Northern Canada, the world will appear to them much as it did the spring before: snow on the ground, stomachs empty, the promise of winterkilled meat to scavenge and the perils of living cheek-by-jowl with an ever-expanding human footprint of growing rural towns, mines, pipelines and roads.
They will not know that they are once again under a national microscope that will determine the fate of them and their progeny.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Board of Game has passed a statewide rule prohibiting the use of stun guns when hunting game or posing with it, in an effort to prevent what state wildlife officials call “catch and release hunting.”
“Conceivably someone could Taser a moose or bear, go up and get a picture taken with it, shut the (Taser) off and then release the animal,” said Larry Lewis, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist in Soldotna who wrote the proposal.
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