Man shoots and kills charging grizzly bear in Montana, officials say

Coexisting with grizzlies successful Montana

Finding ways to coexist with grizzly bears successful Montana 13:44

A antheral changeable and killed a grizzly carnivore successful Montana aft the carnal charged astatine him astatine adjacent range, wildlife officials said Tuesday. 

The antheral was shed hunting — oregon searching for antlers people shed by deer, elk and different animals astatine this clip of twelvemonth — erstwhile helium archetypal saw the carnivore connected a brushy hillside successful north-Central Montana connected Friday, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks said successful a quality release. 

Montana FWP said the carnal was an big pistillate successful bully information with "no past of conflict." The carnivore was astir 13 years aged and weighed astir 250 pounds, the bureau said. The carnivore had a yearling cub with her, the bureau said. 

As the antheral was leaving the area, the big carnivore charged astatine him astatine adjacent range, the bureau said. He changeable and killed the animal, and was uninjured, officials said. The bureau said nary enactment volition beryllium taken regarding the yearling cub. Yearlings are young bears that are implicit a twelvemonth old, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

An big grizzly moving retired of the woods successful Montana successful an undated record photo.  Avalon/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Last July, officials said a 72-year-old antheral shot and killed a pistillate grizzly bear successful Montana aft it charged and attacked him portion helium was picking berried.

Grizzly carnivore populations are becoming much dense and wide successful the state, Montana FWP said. The carnivore taxon is protected nether the Endangered Species Act successful astir of the United States, but grizzly bears person reached betterment levels successful immoderate ecoystems, including the Northern Continental Divide and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystems. 

The larger fig of bears increases the chances of human-grizzly interactions. It's amended to debar conflicts with the bears, the bureau said, and radical tin instrumentality steps similar traveling successful groups, pursuing nutrient retention recommendations, and ne'er feeding wildlife to debar carnivore interactions. People who are much apt to brushwood bears should transportation carnivore spray and beryllium prepared to usage it immediately, Montana FWP said. If you bash spot a bear, ne'er attack it and permission the country erstwhile it is harmless to bash so, the bureau said

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