Caught and killed in Yellowstone National Park

Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming – caught in Yellowstone National Park and killed a male grizzly on Wednesday after he was discovered in developed areas of the park.

A press release from the National Park Service on Thursday afternoon says that the 11-year-old 400 pound bear gave several garbage containers and won food and garbage near Old Faithful, the Nez Perce Picnic area and the parking lot of the Midway Geysir. It happened several times between April 3 and May 13th.

“The bear not only developed a strategy for turning over 800 pound waste containers, but also uprooted smaller bear-resistant dashposes from its concrete bases,” the press release said.

The bear was put down because it was a risk of public security. Officials also wanted to reduce the likelihood that other bears would be used to human food.

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“It is unfortunate that this bear was regularly looking for garbage and was able to defeat the park's bear resistant infrastructure of the park,” says Kerry Gunther, biologist from Yellowstone Bären, Kerry Gunther in a press release. “We make great efforts to protect bears and prevent them from being conditioned on human food. But occasionally a bear outwits us or overcomes our defense. In this case, we sometimes have to remove the bear from the population to protect visitors and property.”

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The bear management plan from Yellowstone Mandates, in which the park offers bear-resistant food storage at all campsites, food forwarding devices on all backcountry camping sites and bear-resistant dashposes and garbage containers. Parking officers say that the security measures of bears are of crucial importance to ensure public security and prevent wild animals from developing dangerous habits.

This is the first time that park officials have killed a grizzly bear in Yellowstone since 2017. At that time they removed a bear from backcountry camping on the Heart Lake, which was harmful and eats human food.