Posts Tagged ‘bear attacks’

Areas of Shoshone National Forest Closed Due to Grizzly Attack

Wyoming Game and Fish still searching for the grizzly bear that mauled 70 year old Erwin Frank Evert to death: Just hours after a grizzly was tranquilized, collared and left to wake up it mauled to death a 7o year old cabin owner in the Kitty Creek area of Wyoming. (Just 7 miles from the East Entrance of Yellowstone [...]

Bear Attacks in Yellowstone Are Rare

Bear attacks in Yellowstone and surrounding areas are rare. But they do happen. One very lucky camper was attacked in Soda Butte Campground in 2008 on an early July morning while asleep in his tent. Not that he was lucky to have been attacked, he was lucky that he suffered only bite and claw marks while protecting himself.      After the attack, the [...]