Bear-human encounters proceed within the northern Rockies.
A person, a lady and their canine have been killed in an attack by a grizzly bear, in keeping with reporting by CBC News.
At about 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29, Parks Canada Dispatch in Banff National Park obtained an alert from an inReach/GPS system indicating a bear attack. The alert location originated from inside Banff National Park, within the Red Deer River Valley, west of Ya Ha Tinda Ranch.
Parks Canada instantly mobilized a Wildlife Human Attack Response Team whose members are specifically educated in responding to wildlife assaults. Weather circumstances on the time didn’t enable for helicopter use, and the response workforce travelled by way of the evening to the situation by floor.
The response workforce arrived on-site at 1 a.m. and found two deceased people. While within the space, the response workforce encountered a grizzly bear that displayed aggressive conduct, main Parks Canada employees to euthanize the bear on-site to make sure public security. Sundre Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived at 5 a.m. to help and the victims have been transported to Sundre, Alberta.
Woman injured in bear attack close to Polebridge
According to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, a lady was hospitalized in an encounter with a bear Sunday close to the U.S.-Canada border north of Polebridge in Flathead County.
At about 3 p.m., Oct. 1, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks employees have been notified {that a} lady was attacked alongside the financial institution of Trail Creek just a few miles west of the North Fork Road. The A.L.E.R.T. air ambulance transported the 73-year-old sufferer to Logan Health Medical Center in Kalispell.
FWP wardens and bear specialists are actively investigating the incident and monitoring the positioning alongside Trail Creek often called the “Bubble ups” the place the creek flows underground earlier than rising to the floor.
The web site is closed whereas the investigation continues. The kind of bear is unconfirmed at the moment.
The sufferer was on nationwide forestland together with her husband and canine when the bear emerged from thick brush and attacked her. Her husband deployed bear spray and the bear moved away from the sufferer.
They returned to their car and drove to a location the place they may name emergency providers.
Hunter kills grizzly close to Gardiner
A hunter killed a grizzly bear Sept. 26 in an encounter in Beattie Gulch, an space north of Gardiner and Yellowstone National Park.
The hunter was reportedly charged by the bear earlier than taking pictures and killing the bear at shut vary in self-defense. The hunter was not injured.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks obtained a report of the incident the identical day. FWP employees and employees from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, and National Park Service visited the positioning and confirmed the bear mortality.
An animal carcass was discovered close by and FWP bear specialists and recreation wardens decided the bear was possible appearing defensively.
This incident remains to be beneath investigation by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Tips for recreating in bear nation:
Carry bear spray shut at hand and know how you can use it.
Travel in teams each time attainable.
Make noise, particularly close to streams or in thick forest the place listening to and visibility is proscribed. This could be the important thing to avoiding encounters. Most bears will keep away from people once they know they’re current.
If you’re attacked by a bear and you’re with out a deterrent or the deterrent hasn’t labored, keep face down on the bottom, defending your face and neck together with your arms. Stay nonetheless till you’re sure the bear has moved away.
Avoid carcass websites and concentrations of ravens and different scavengers.
Watch for indicators of bears resembling scat, diggings, torn-up logs and turned over rocks, and partly consumed animal carcasses.
Don’t strategy a bear.
For extra info on being bear conscious, go to fwp.mt.gov/bear-aware.
