Grizzly bear

Wildlife officials say an old and underweight grizzly bear was euthanized after biting a deer hunter on the thigh west of Cody. Wyoming Game and Fish spokesman Dennie Hammer says the man surprised the bear while he was hunting late last week in an area of dense willows near the confluence of the South Fork of the Shoshone River and Buffalo Bill Reservoir...

Yellowstone National Park has closed all trails and backcountry campsites in an area where a man was killed by a female grizzly bear on Wednesday. Park officials say the man was hiking with his wife when they apparently surprised the bear and its cubs. Another group of hikers heard the wife's cry for help and used a cell phone to call 911.

Wildlife officials are investigating after a 2-year-old grizzly bear was found dead in the Charlo area. Tribal bear biologists on the Flathead Indian Reservation were conducting a routine telemetry flight Wednesday when they discovered the bear's radio collar was transmitting on mortality mode...

There have been a half-dozen encounters between grizzly bears and humans reported in Montana this month alone. Most of those encounters didn't turn out well for the bears, which are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Four times, the grizzlies were shot and killed.