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A local black bear hunter who mistakenly killed a grizzly last spring must pay $15,000 in restitution and is barred from hunting over the next year. At a Wednesday hearing in Park County Circuit …
POWELL (WNE) — A local black bear hunter who mistakenly killed a grizzly last spring must pay $15,000 in restitution and is barred from hunting over the next year.
The self-defense killing is one of several recent incidents involving dead grizzlies in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana
Grizzly bears have been killed by black bear hunters recently in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, again raising the question of proper bear identification.
Officials have determined that the hunter shot and killed the grizzly bear in self-defense. He was hunting for black bears at the time.