Posted on 08/29/2008 9:08:52 AM PDT by george76
Mauling was in Gates of the Arctic National Park.
A grizzly bear dragged a woman out of her tent Thursday and mauled her ... according to the National Park Service.
The woman was saved by companions camped with her ...
An Alyeska Pipeline Services Co. helicopter, normally used to monitor the oil pipeline, was expected to pick her up there and ferry her to a hospital in Fairbanks...
They were camped and asleep when the bear arrived in camp. It apparently first entered a "food tent," Quinley said.
"It destroyed a water jug," he said, and tried to get into the group's food, but couldn't.
"It was in bear barrels,'' Quinley said. The Park Service requires those to be used by backpackers in Denali National Park and suggests their use elsewhere to try to keep bears from becoming habituated to human food.
In this case, Quinley said, it appears that when the bear couldn't break into the bear barrels it decided to see what it could find in the next tent and attacked the woman inside. Her screaming apparently awoke others.
Bears attacks in camps have happened in the past, however. Three years ago, Anchorage attorney Richard Huffman and his wife, Katherine, a retired teacher, were attacked in their tent and killed by a grizzly along the Hula Hula River in ANWR.
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
Not my work george but thought the bear was appropriate, lol.
Have been offline a few days and am way behind.
...tried to get into the group's food, but couldn't. "It was in bear barrels,'' Quinley said.I won't make a polka joke, I promise. I do wonder if they had any ooh pie or shoe pie, bears love those.
Note: this topic is from 8/29/2008. Neglected to mention that before. I was only in this topic to get the Groucho pic.
Kanawa fears no bear!
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