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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 ...
Any captured griz should be put down....not relocated..the bear goes back to his old hunting grounds usually...We have idiots working for the government...Bears eat people, don’t they understand that.......we are a defenseless tasty snack...
you reminded me of a cartoon I saw many years ago...two dragons sitting around talking with a pile of knight's armor in a pile in front of them. One dragon says to the other...they're not bad once you get past the hard outer shell.
Now that is funny, I don’t care who you are...(quotes the cable guy)
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