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Ghost Grizzlies and Other Rare Bruins features stunning photos of Ghosts and other rare varieties, such as Basalt, Ebony, and Lava grizzly/brown bears. It also shares the adventures of two Ghost grizzly cubs. Finally, it teaches you expert techniques for identifying the variety, sex and age/maturity of a bear, as well as how to recognize bears as individuals.
CODY — Wildlife officials are investigating a grizzly bear encounter near Cody in which a hunter shot and killed a grizzly bear after being bitten by the bear.
The hunter was bitten at least twice on the left thigh Wednesday morning in the Upper South Fork Valley, about 35 miles southwest of Cody, according to Mark Bruscino, bear management officer for the Wyoming Game and Fish De-partment.
The hunter was alone, but was able to walk out of the backcountry, and was assisted by someone in the area, Brus-cino said.
A Pennsylvania man was recovering at a Lander hospital Thursday after surgery to repair broken bones in his face caused by a grizzly bear attack northwest of Dubois.
“The guy was hunting elk when he encountered a bear at about ten yards,” said Wyoming Game and Fish bear management supervisor Mark Bruscino. “The bear bit him on the arm, the face and at least one time on the top of the head.”
The hunter told officials he thought the grizzly bear came out of a bed.
Ronnie Cully heads to the hills for a hot date during an exhilarating trip to British Columbia.
Not many things can get me up at 5.45 on a Sunday morning. An alarm clock is one. The prospect of a game of golf is another. This time, it’s the promise of a meeting with a lady. Elly is no ordinary lady, though. She weighs around 25 stones and will be dressed only in a fur coat.
I am going to need a little help locating her, which is why I am standing at the foot of the Blackcomb Mountain in the ski resort of Whistler, Canada, at a time of day when most holidaymakers are still sleeping off the excesses of the night before.
Hungry bruins keeping conservation officers busy in Whistler
Officers shot and killed a "very habituated" female black bear in the municipal works compound on Nesters Road last week.
The bear, known to researchers as Phyllis, had a long history of getting into conflict situations, Sgt. Chris Doyle of the B.C. Conservation Officer Service said on Monday (Sept. 27). She was first collared "several years ago" in the area near the old landfill, he said.
BOZEMAN — Wildlife officials said a bow hunter is recovering after a grizzly bear mauled him in the southern Gravelly Mountains near Ennis, just 3 1/2 miles from where a similar attack happened less than a week earlier.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks said 49-year-old Kim Wunderlich was hunting with a partner in the Cascade Creek area Friday when the female grizzly with two cubs knocked him down and bit him once on the inner thigh. The hunter was taken to a hospital in Dillon and has since been released.
Wildlife officials say a grizzly bear attacked a bow hunter in the southern Gravelly Mountains near Ennis over the weekend.
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Wildlife officials say a grizzly bear attacked a bow hunter in the southern Gravelly Mountains near Ennis over the weekend.
Sam Sheppard, a game warden with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, said the Sunday morning attack left Matt Menge of Bozeman with a broken right forearm and large cuts to the head. The warden described the attack as fast and sudden.
CALGARY - Federal officials are to blame for a grizzly attack which saw two Australian tourists badly mauled 15 years ago, a lawyer said Monday.
Mark Freeman, who represents Aussies Andrew Brodie and Owen Hereford, told court Banff National Park staff failed to warn campers about the potential danger.
Both Brodie and Hereford testified about their Sept. 25, 1995, ordeal in which a grizzly tore apart their tent and attacked the two men near Lake Louise, Alta.
ST. IGNATIUS - We all have horror stories about bad dates.
Andrew White and Dakota Peterson's story might just take the cake.
The two were hiking in the Mission Mountains Aug. 19 only to come 10 yards from a full-grown black bear.
After running from the bear for about 40 minutes, the two made it to their car, half-blind, out of breath and White shoeless, only to have left the keys in the backpack that was dropped at the beginning of the chase.
Whistler RCMP officers chased away a bear that ripped into a tent at Riverside Campground on the weekend.
RCMP Sgt. Shawn LeMay said Conservation Officer Dave Jevons was dealing with an unrelated situation in Creekside when he phoned police on Saturday (Aug. 14) at around 8 p.m. to ask for assistance in dealing with the Riverside situation.
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MISSOULA — When confronting an angry grizzly bear in the woods, the last thing you want to worry about is the fine print on your can of bear spray.
But as customers scour the shelves for protection in the wake of recent fatal bear attacks, the fine print matters.
Busy July for bear calls closes with yearling getting into Riverside tent
The weekend took its toll on Whistler's bear population, as two more were killed on Saturday and Sunday (July 31 and Aug. 1) — one destroyed after breaking into a tent at the Riverside Campground, and the other dead after being hit by a car.
A busy July for bear calls ended with the destruction of the tent-invading bear on Saturday. Dave Jevons of the B.C. Conservation Officer Service said a female yearling that had a history of a high level of conflict around the Village broke into a tent at Riverside, and got into some food and toiletries.
BILLINGS — A grizzly bear that preyed on three campers outside Yellowstone National Park was underweight but not starving, and it was in an area with ample natural food supplies, wildlife officials said Monday as they worked to figure out why the animal attacked.
With the necropsy on the female grizzly still being analyzed, officials had no explanation for what caused the bear to rampage through a campground Wednesday with cubs in tow.
BILLINGS, Mont. — A newly opened paintball course in Montana had to shut down after odor from disintegrated paintballs was luring possibly dangerous guests: bears.
Big Sky Marketing Director Dax Schieffer says the resort tried to find an environmentally friendly paintball. But it turned out that the one selected contains a vegetable oil that can attract grizzly and black bears that commonly roam the region.
FAIRBANKS -- The National Parks Service will not pursue charges against a hiker who fatally shot a grizzly bear while hiking in Denali National Park and Preserve two months ago, saying his actions were justified.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the North Pole man told authorities he shot the bear after it charged his girlfriend while the two were hiking up Tattler Creek on May 28.
COOKE CITY, Mont. — At least one bear rampaged through a heavily occupied campground Wednesday near Yellowstone National Park in the middle of the night, killing one person and injuring two others during a terrifying attack that forced people to hide in their cars as an animal tore through tents.
Authorities said three separate attacks left a male dead and a woman and another male injured at the Soda Butte campground. The woman suffered severe lacerations and crushed bones from bites on her arms, and the surviving male was bitten on his calf.
Jack Hanna isn't making idle claims when he tells hikers to carry pepper spray with them to ward off a grizzly bear attack.
The TV host and zookeeper says he took his own advice and used pepper spray on grizzlies headed toward him and his family last weekend.
A 57-year-old Sooke man said he woke up Wednesday morning and found himself nose to nose with a young black bear, which lunged at him and flipped him “like a pancake.”
And Jay Vinden said it was thanks to his friend, Bruce Doyle, 47, that he survived the attack, which took place during a camping trip in a remote area near Port Alberni.
An Ely black bear and her cub have reunited after 1-1/2 months apart.
Researchers Sue Mansfield and Lynn Rogers of the North American Bear Center confirmed Monday that Lily and her 5-month-old cub, Hope, reunited Sunday after the mother wandered into the cub's area.
The two were discovered together Monday by Mansfield, who has been videotaping mother and cub and recording their behavior. Mansfield and Rogers estimate that the bears have been together since 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
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