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Posted on 06/18/2010 2:51:49 PM PDT by george76
CODY — Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the fatal mauling Thursday of a Shoshone National Forest cabin owner by a grizzly bear. The incident took place at a site where a bear had been captured and released earlier Thursday.
Erwin Frank Evert, 70, of Cody, was reported missing by his wife to a member of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team that had been conducting research in the Kitty Creek drainage, about 10 miles east of Yellowstone National Park.
Researchers had earlier trapped and released an adult male grizzly in the area...
A study team member returned to the capture site and found Evert's body...
Steward said that Evert, who was not armed and was not carrying bear spray, apparently wandered into the capture site sometime after the bear had been released.
Chris Servheen, grizzly bear coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service... said he was unaware of what other public notifications, if any, were routinely made about bear capture efforts.
"The people doing this are highly trained professionals who follow very detailed protocols. One of the most important protocols is public safety,"
Some cabin owners have said they were unaware of research work being done in the area, and questioned whether wildlife and land management agencies were communicating effectively with the public about such activities.
(Excerpt) Read more at billingsgazette.com ...
"Wandered into" the area? He was a hiker, one would speculate he was on a trail...what part of that combo is hard to grasp?
I'm not sure on policy, but it'd be nice if they posted a note at the trail head if they've recently released a bear on the trail.
Sounds like this did not ‘have to happen’. . .had their been communication.
I need glasses I really saw “ Hitler killed by Bear “
'Course not. They're guvment, doncha know. They don't gotta communicate with us here small people...
On first glace I thought “didn’t he already shoot himself in his bunker a while back?”
regardless of whether there was a sign posted or not, when your in these parks you should know better. Mother Nature is merciless and if you forget simple precautions that could save your life tragedies can happen.
my one pup Toby caught & killed a chipmunk today. Not sure he & friend Josy would do as well with bear protecting me along they way... Guess I might just need to consider breaking the law & CCW when I am in the wild (yes, I do it all the time)
Hey, reporter, how about filling in the blanks?
Was the bear captured and released in the same area as the wording suggests or was he a ‘trouble’ bear captured in an area close to tourists and released up by the cabins area?
Were the cabins area residents apprised of it?
And I wonder if there’s ever been a study of bears that, though not trouble bears, have been captured, ‘tested’, collared and released - as to a new animosity to man?
“”The people doing this are highly trained professionals who follow very detailed protocols. One of the most important protocols is public safety,”
Obviously their protocol is no good.
Well Hitler should have known to not feed them, carry bear spray etc.
CODY — Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the fatal mauling Thursday of a Shoshone National Forest cabin owner by a grizzly bear. The incident took place at a site where a bear had been captured and released earlier Thursday.
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Well, if we are gonna do this with illegal immigrants, we might as well do it with bears.
And when the results are the same? Don't be surprized.
Let’s try that headline again:
“Grizzly bear, having been trapped, tormented, and released by do-good naturalists, takes revenge on first human it sees.”
Not the bear’s fault, not the hiker’s fault.
Let's see. A grown male bear smells, hears and sees humans. He feels a sharp pain in his belly and then suddenly feels very sleepy. He awakens to smell human scents all over him, he is groggy, likely hungry, and has a stupid human smelling collar on his neck that he can't get off. Suddenly an old human comes walking down his trail.
What, oh what, will the bear do?
And he was pissed...
hee hee - you said the same thing I did - only better.
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