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400-pound grizzly trapped and killed in Yellowstone after searching for meals and flipping bear-resistant dumpsters

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Editorial Board Published May 19, 2025
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A 400-pound grizzly bear was trapped and killed by park workers in Yellowstone final week as a result of it posed a threat to public security in one of many Wyoming park’s busiest areas, in keeping with the Nationwide Park Service.

The bear, an 11-year-old male grizzly, overturned bear-resistant dumpsters — some weighing 800 kilos — and pulled trash cans from their concrete bases seeking human rubbish. It was in a position to entry meals and trash close to Outdated Trustworthy, in addition to close to the Nez Perce Picnic Space and the Halfway Geyser Basin car parking zone, park officers mentioned.

“It’s unfortunate that this bear began regularly seeking out garbage and was able to defeat the park’s bear-resistant infrastructure,” Kerry Gunther, Yellowstone bear administration biologist, mentioned. “We go to great lengths to protect bears and prevent them from becoming conditioned to human food. But occasionally, a bear outsmarts us or overcomes our defenses. When that happens, we sometimes have to remove the bear from the population to protect visitors and property.”

The park famous that Yellowstone gives “bear-resistant” meals storage lockers in any respect campgrounds, in addition to meals storage gadgets at backcountry campsites, and “bear-resistant dumpsters and garbage cans.”

This photograph from the Nationwide Park Service exhibits a bear-resistant dumpster that was flipped over in Nez Perce Picnic Space in Yellowstone Nationwide Park, Wyoming.

Nationwide Park Service/Allan Barker

Officers additionally mentioned the final time a bear was killed by park workers in “a management action” was in 2017, when it “removed” a grizzly bear after it broken tents and received entry to meals at Coronary heart Lake campsites.

In 2023, one other grizzly within the area was killed, after fatally mauling a girl on a forest path west of Yellowstone and attacking an individual in Idaho three years earlier than that. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks shot that bear, a 10-year-old feminine grizzly, with approval from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Grizzly bears are protected within the U.S. as a threatened species and it’s unlawful to hurt or kill them besides in circumstances of self-defense or the protection of others, in keeping with the fish and wildlife service. The Higher Yellowstone Ecosystem, with Yellowstone Nationwide Park at its core, has been recognized by the federal government company as a “recovery zone” for grizzly populations.

Sarah Lynch Baldwin

Sarah Lynch Baldwin is a deputy managing editor of CBSNews.com. She helps lead nationwide and breaking information protection and shapes editorial workflows.

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