Grizzly shot, killed after loading mushroom pickers near Montana Prairie Town

A grizzly was shot after he burdened two men near Choteau, Montana, near Choteau, Montana on Wednesday.

Choteau is in the part of Montana, in which Grizzlies increasingly recaptured her habitat for natural prairie.

According to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP), two landowners picked about a mile north of Choteau mushrooms on Wednesday evening when they were charged by an adult female grizzly bear.

According to the FWP, the men shot the bear up close. The men were not injured.

An FWP report identified the men as “John” and “Justin” without giving their last names. News that were sent to FWP officials every day by Cowboy State on Friday were not returned.

More grizzly problems in Montana

Grizzly is not unknown in Montana, even in areas that were not occupied by bears until recently.

Two anglers in April ward off from a grizzly with shots In Red Rocks Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in the southwest of Montana.

It was not known whether one of the shots hit the bear, and the anglers were intact, according to the FWP reports.

In autumn 2023 there were two runs-ins Between hunters and grizzlies In Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area. It lies between the small cities of Choteau and Fairfield, Montana, about 40 miles west of Great Falls.

After an incident in which a bird hunter fired his shotgun in a grizzly, an official from Montana Wildlife Daily Cowboy State said that he found a shotgun with some grizzly hair, but no blood.

Wildlife Agents later used drones and a helicopter to search for the bear “about 4 miles in every direction”, but found nothing, said Chad White, a specialist for bear management at the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. This means that the bear was probably not seriously injured.

In another incident, a grizzly tried to claim the cadaver of a white frillary goat that an archer had just killed hunter.

The bear ran away when the hunter and an FWP agent drove to the scene in picking up the agent. That gave them enough time to throw the deer carcass into the truck's bed and go.

Mark Heinz can be achieved mark@cowboystatedaily.com.