[kiryandil]

Here's something that struck me. NO MEDICAL BACKUP present. Feds came loaded for bear and didn't care about the bear. Multiple 'hunters' standing around admiring the kill still ready to shoot the bear if it jerked.

Good point.

[Gaffer]

I did see one guy trudge over with a bag (a long while after the bear was apparently dead). He looked really enthusiastic about it /s. Had to drag the bag out of the pickup and trudge through all that snow to drop it down 5 feet from the dead bear......because he got so tired lugging all that medical life-saving gear over to the bear. In the end, after at least 15 minutes there was nothing they could do for the bear with the 4 likely bullet holes in him.