Bear, possibly a grizzly, attacks hiker in Yellowstone National Park
This week, a bear in Yellowstone National Park – probably a gray – was released from the hospital who was attacked.
According to the park officials, the 29 -year -old man was walking alone in the distant Lake Trail when he surprised the bear. According to the authorities, while trying to use the bear spray, “important but life -threatening injuries on his chest and left arm continued.
National Park Service medical officials responded to the scene and the sacrifice was loaded with an ambulance with them and was taken to a nearby clinic. From there, a helicopter flew him into a hospital. He was released on Wednesday.
As in the rest of the US, the bear attacks in Yellowstone are extremely rare. Since the park was founded in 1872, eight people have been killed by bears, According to the website of the park. 125 people drowned for comparison and died from Burns after 23 fell into the hot springs.
It is quite rare to even see a grizzly bear in the lower 48 state. It was much more common before 1800, and they were wandering in 50,000 American West. However, European settlers saw them as a deadly threat to humans and animal husbandry and hunted them adjacent to them and reduced the number of adjacent USA to less than 1,000
Thanks to improvement and protection efforts in recent years, The population rose to approximately 2,000According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, mostly in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
Nevertheless, the ghost of a bear attack is especially sufficient by a Grizzly to ensure that most of the blood is cold. Experts told BackCountry travelers to stop the ground and fight if they are attacked by a black bear, while standard advice for years was to reach out and play dead in the face of a much larger, more aggressive disruption.
This advice has been updated recently, but not much. National Parks Website that provides guidance What to do, “If you surprise a grizzly/brown bear and make accusations or attacks, don’t come back! Just fight if the attack continues.”
The wicker, who was attacked on Tuesday, told the park officials that he thought he was a black bear, but the place, behavior and size of the month were suspected that parking staff could be a breaking.
The discovery of an animal carcass near the attack and the bear confirmation of the nearby pieces were a gray and supported it.
The trail was closed indefinitely, and Rangers swept the area to ensure that there was no other hikers in close danger.
As for the bear? Parks officials say it is probably surprised and only acting in defense. In other words, the park, “will not do any management action against the bear.”
Last year, Jon Kyle Mohr encountered a similar encounter with a black bear at California’s Yosemite National Park.
It began when he saw a large black shape in the Mamut Lakes, 16 hours before the end of the 50 mile ultra work.
Suddenly, he said that he felt “a little sharpness ve on his shoulder and then felt a strong move that stumbled him in the dark. When they returned, people, about a hundred meters away, shone in the direction of their headlights and “Bear!” They were shouting.
It worked. The bear disappeared into the darkness and left mohr torn clothes and a few scratches, but there was no more serious damage.
When asked how he felt about the experience, Mohr said he was incredibly shaken at first and was near the Vernal Falls Trailhead, one of the most crowded places of the park.
But a day or two later, he settled in the framework of more zen minds.
“This was just a really strange, random collision,” he said. “If I had rested my feet at any point for 20 seconds longer,” during the 16 -hour run, “No.”
