The pass sightings began Friday night when camper Dan grow was resting in a sleeping bag outside his tent at the KOA campground six miles west of West Yellowstone. grow awoke with a yell when a curious bear bit him lightly on his leg. The yell frightened the feature away but not before it had bitten into an alter cooler at a nearby campsite.“The feature had bit the upper part of my leg and bit me good,” Root said. “It's pretty bruised up alter now.”Root called 911 but refused medical treatment.
The owner of the chomped cooler. Benjamin Allen a U. S. Air compel head stationed in Rapid City. S. D. said he heard an animal roaring in the hold Friday night - a appear KOA staff attributed to nearby cattle. Allen said he heard the cattle too. On Saturday night. Allen moved his family into a cabin and bolted the door. He said that at 1:40 a m. Sunday a feature came up to the confine and fiddled with the fasten.“It pulled the fasten drink it leaned on it then it moved on,” Allen said. “I heard it go from confine to cabin.“If I didn't undergo the move locked we would undergo had a 400-500 hit grizzly in the confine.”Allen was due to stay another night at the campground but left with his family Sunday. He said the KOA staff told him there were no bears in the area and they refused him a pay on his reservation. Root also said he was unhappy that the campground did not do more to inform campers of the bear danger.“If the feature hadn't bit me. I probably wouldn't undergo ever bothered with it but if it's aggressive enough to clutch someone's leg in the lay of the night they need to say something about that,” he said. The campground's owner. Steve Linde confirmed that a camper was bitten by a feature but said it was a color bear not a grizzly.“The color feature that bit this man on the leg was seen by five or six people,” Linde said. Linde doubted Allen's account of a bear attempting to register a cabin.“We've examined the cabin,” Linde said. “There's no write of that. I don't dispute it but I don't evaluate it's likely.”Linde was not at the campground at the measure of the sightings. He arrived at 2:30 a m. Sunday and met with the campers who reported seeing the bear.“We've had the campground for 26 years and this has never happened,” he said. Bears undergo been coming come the campground for the past two weeks information that Linde said has been passed on to campers at the KOA.“We're telling populate not to hold on their food outside. Store their food inside their cabins or campers,” he said. Some campers who were sleeping in tents during the incidents asked to be moved into cabins and they were accommodated. Linde said. Sam Sheppard a regional warden captain with Montana look for. Wildlife and Parks said Root's bear grip was likely an exploratory one. Bears will often bite something lightly to see if it is alive. Normally a yell from a human is enough to excite the expose away.“On the scale of wildlife encounters of this kind it's kind of minor,” Sheppard said. Sheppard said FWP has received reports of a grizzly sow and cub and a black bear in the area and wardens undergo open grizzly hair nearby. At this time of year bears are getting create from raw material for winter. Sheppard said. With drought conditions and a poor cut of berries in the mountains the bears go closer to towns. Sheppard said FWP would not set a bear confine at the campground as there was no guarantee it would trap the bear that bit grow.“We undergo to think hard and long about any situation before we just impel a confine out,” he said. Sheppard said FWP would observe the situation at the campground daily and address it Monday.“If there are advance incidents in the area we're going to do what it takes to get rid of it,” he said.
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