In Montana, a 677-pound grizzly bear knocked down and stomped a bird hunter in front of his wife before the man shot the agitated creature.
With his wife and their dogs, he was out hunting on private land in Montana’s Glacier National Park on Tuesday afternoon when a bear knocked him down, attacked, and stomped on him.
It was said that once the bear was startled by the man, conflict broke out between the two.
The grizzly was approaching the man from the underbrush in a creek bottom east of Choteau while he was attempting to flush out a bird.
In self-defense, the man fired a revolver and a shotgun at the bear, wounding it, and the animal ran away.
Authorities were informed by the man’s wife and dogs after he departed with them, and he spent Tuesday night in the hospital. There were no bite or claw marks on him.
The 51-year-old man’s wife is also from Washington, although neither was identified.
Following a decision by bear management experts and game wardens, the bear was discovered by a drone and euthanized due to the injuries it had sustained.
Despite the fact that the species is covered by the federal Endangered Species Act, this decision was made.
It follows a grizzly bear incident that killed a man in March.
Livingston resident Craig Clouatre, 40, was found dead nearby Yellowstone National Park, according to Park County Search and Rescue.
According to The Living Enterprise, Clouatre vanished on Wednesday after going for a hike at Six Mile Creek in Paradise Valley.
In a statement, Park County Sheriff Brad Bichler acknowledged Clouatre’s death.
“I am writing this update with a very sorrowful heart,” I said. We have found Craig after a thorough search this morning,” Bichler stated. He apparently had a run-in with a grizzly bear and, regrettably, did not survive.
Please remember his family and everyone else involved in your prayers.
In the Yellowstone area since 2010, grizzlies have claimed the lives of at least eight humans.
One of them was a backcountry guide who was mauled and murdered by a grizzly at Yellowstone’s western boundary last year. A 400+ pound male grizzly attacked guide Charles “Carl” Mock in April as he was fishing alone at a favorite location on Montana’s Madison River, where it overflows out of the park. Mock was murdered.
Outside of Alaska, grizzlies are protected by federal law. In the Yellowstone area, elected authorities are trying to relax restrictions and permit bear hunting.
More than 700 bears live in the Yellowstone area, which includes parts of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming.
Although fatal attacks on people are uncommon, they have become increasingly frequent in recent years as grizzly bear populations have expanded and more people have migrated to rural regions close to bear habitat.