Efforts to Prevent Sunlight Basin Pack from entering livestock enclosure results in dead grizzly cub

Efforts to prevent Sunlight Basin Pack from entering livestock enclosure result in a dead grizzly cub

July 28, 2003

Recent efforts to capture and collar wolves from the Sunlight Basin Pack east of Yellowstone Park have resulted in an unexpected suffocation death of a year old female grizzly cub. The wolves had been going through the corner of a fence, and they had killed a few cow calves. One female member of the pack had been killed in response, but the snare being used was to capture and collar other members of the pack, not kill them (at least in the short run). Procedures will now change from use of snares to leg hold traps in the area.
Folks might recall that back in 2000 a grizzly bear trap captured the alpha female of the Teton Pack instead. She was released unharmed.

Mike Stark wrote up the story for Montana papers. "Bear cub strangled by trap for wolves." By Mike Stark. Billings Gazette.

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