Grizzly Bear Kills Man Near Yellowstone Park

I think that he should have had a gun with him to protect himself. You do not go into a bears teritory with out it. These bears are not afraid of humans or anything else. If you invade their home you can expect to be attacked. I am sorry that he was attacked, but he should have known better than to appoach a grizzly bear, especialy one that appeared sick.

These National Parks are different than Theme Parks- I think many people get them confused- When one goes to Yellowstone, one goes for the nature and bears are part of that- "You pays ya' money and ya'takes ya'chances"

Damned bears. They'll do anything for a pick-a-nick basket. Even murder.

Someone dropped the ball here. An observer should have been present to monitor the bear. Unless the bear was tagged and then left to it's own devices. It is possible that Mr. Evert happened upon a sleeping bear and his curiosity got the best of him. In Nevada and California, Black bears are thick in the Spring. They can be frightened easily and made to avoid humans. Grizzlies normally avoid humans but are much more aggressive.

Do you think they PO'd the bear or what. The widow should sue the park service for not adequately warning people that they had just riled this monster .

People who would never DREAM of feeding a bear will still leave apple cores, spilled snack foods and sandwich crusts in their wake, leading bears to associate humans with food -- if not "With" them, then "On" them, or "In" them!

Although my heart goes out to the hiker and his family, we cannot make the world 100% safe. It seems to me to be a matter of deciding to eleminate the wild animals or deciding to allow some level of known risk when hiking or doing other recreational activities. I suggest leaving the bear alone, since it is his habitat, and allowing hikers to be forwarned and armed because everyone has a right to defend themselves.

Bear mace would have spared the life of the man, as well as the bear, which if found will be killed as per standard procedure...they don't relocate bears that have killed a human.

For those interested in more information, please read this. Mr. Evert, who was well-aquainted with the area, knew they were looking for this grizzly and CHOSE to hike into the capture site apparently without benefit of bear spray or firearm. It was a puzzling, tragic, and deadly decision. This was outside of the Park in the Shoshone National Forest. The Interagency Grizzly Bear team is a group of highly trained scientists and wildlife experts interested in the bears' best interests. These animals are not cute little defenseless teddies. They are to be respected, and with humans encroaching more and more on thier habitat, caution must be observed. My condolences to the family.

http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c8df3903-eb4f-5ddc-b410-d7a44f249ee3.html

I thought these animals were supposed to be monitored until they were awake and alert enough to go off on their own? If they left a doped up bear there and the hiker walked up on it as it was waking up, there is no telling what could have happened,the bear would be afraid and would not take any chances on anything attacking it at that point and the hiker seeing a "dead" bear on the trail would naturally walk up to it, curosity.