Posted on 10/24/2024 7:37:12 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
A beloved grizzly bear known as an ambassador for her species was fatally struck on a highway in Wyoming, National Park Service officials said Wednesday.
Grizzly bear 399, who got her name through a research number assignment in 2001, had a yearling cub with her when she was hit on a highway in Snake River Canyon south of Jackson, authorities said. The cub's whereabouts are unknown, but there's no evidence to suggest that it was injured.
The driver is OK, officials said. While the circumstances of the fatal crash were not immediately clear, authorities said 49 grizzly bears died because of vehicle collisions between 2009 and 2023.
Grizzly bears generally live to be around 25, though some in the wild have lived for over 35 years, according to the Fish & Wildlife Service. Grizzly bear 399 was 28 when she was killed.
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I hit a deer on the interstate once. Demolished the whole front of the car............
Question for those who may know. In the midwest if you hit a deer you can ask for a tag from the responding officer and keep the carcass.
Is the same true if you hit a bear?
Like hitting a 200+ pound wild boar/pig, it will total a car.
Beloved? Did the bear show up and let kids pet him?
A great loss to the Yellowstone petting zoo.
I doubt it.... Endangered species.
“In July 1975, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service first listed the grizzly bear as a threatened species in the lower 48 states under ESA (40 FR 31734). It is illegal to harm, harass, or kill grizzly bears, except in cases of self defense or the defense of others (50 CFR § 17.40).
On March 29, 2007, the FWS published a final rule designating the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) population as a distinct population segment (DPS) and removing grizzly bears in the GYE from the ESA list (72 FR 14866). However, this rule was vacated by the District Court of Montana on September 21, 2009 (672 F.Supp.2d 1105 (D. Mont. 2009). In 2016, the FWS again proposed to remove the GYE population of grizzly bears from the list of endangered and threatened species under ESA. It stated that “[t]he Service has determined that the GYE grizzly bear population has increased in size and more than tripled its occupied range since being listed as threatened under the Act in 1975 and that threats to the population are sufficiently minimized.” On June 30, 2017, the FWS published its final rule and removed that DPS from the list. This final rule was challenged by six different lawsuits in federal courts in Missoula, Montana and Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago lawsuit was transferred to Missoula, and the lawsuits were consolidated. In 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana vacated the final delisting rule and restored Endangered Species Act status to the GYE grizzly bear. It held that the FWS failed to consider how reduced protections in the GYE would impact the other grizzly populations and that the FWS’s application of the ESA threats analysis was arbitrary and capricious.”
Judges and lawyers know everything....
This brings to mind an episode of “Newhart” involving a beloved “Great White Buck. According to local folklore, a rare sighting of “the Great White Buck’ meant the town would experience good fortune in the coming year. The townspeople were celebrating one of these rare sightings, but their joy was short-lived when Bob Newhart ran over him.
This HAD to be written by an Upper East Side dweller who never leaves Central Park for outdoor recreation.
Give the grizzlies their own road crossing path, like the deer have. (LOL.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOHwwFBYawQ
What would Brian Boitano do?
When Brian Boitano was in the Alps
Fighting grizzly bears
He used his magical fire breath
And saved the maidens fair
Sorry to hear this.
Reminds me of the mountain lions that are routinely killed on So Cal’s freeways, very sad since there are so few of them left.
A new “animal bridge” is being built over the 101 freeway to try to prevent this and also to help with inbreeding issues since the freeway bottled up the lion population on either side.
There’s nothing beloved about an animal whose basic instinct is to kill you by eating you alive.
A few years back Yellowstone let some idiot live with grizzlies. And he got eaten.
There is no such thing as a “Gentle Ben”.
I don’t feel any worse about this incident than I would a story of someone running over a coyote or a badger.
I can’t imagine the damage caused by smacking a Grizzly at speed.
I have seen what big alligators can do to the undercarriages of cars in Florida and it’s mechanically catastrophic
There are more than enough. Many of them hang around suburbs and eat pet cats and dogs. More than a few humans have been attacked, a few even killed and eaten.
Distribution: Other than humans, cougars are the most widely distributed land mammal in the Western Hemisphere. Cougars range from northwestern Canada to Patagonia, South America.
Click on a range map to see where cougars live in California.:
Sounds familiar.
Man and girlfriend eaten by grizzlies
Timothy 'Grizzy Man' Treadwell was a bear enthusiast and documentary maker who would fly out to Alaska every year to spend months camping with the animals, but one day, tragedy struck.
It became a tradition for the star to fly out there every summer, something he did for 13 years.
Timothy would chat to, play with and even touch the bears when he visited - he believed that he is one of the bears and said they were misunderstood.
The bear enthusiast was apparently repeatedly warned by friends and family of the dangers of bears, but still decided to camp with them every year.
But Timothy was tragically killed by the animal he loved so much, as he was mauled to death in front of girlfriend Amie Huguenard in October 2003.
The bear then turned on Amie, who was also tragically killed in the incident.
Remains of both people were found in the grizzly's stomach after park rangers killed it.
Grizzlies are misunderstood. Only about 5% want to eat you. Just ask Timothy Treadmill!
“Tragically killed”. He was killed which was inevitable so I hardly see it as tragic. He was stupidly killed. The girl was killed tragically because she believed the guy.
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