[pct-l] Black bear snatches, kills 11-year-old Utah boy | www.tucsoncitizen.com (r)

[Tortoise]

here's another link to the grandfather blaming the feds and a partial 
quote. some of the other stories no longer come up when I search Google 
news.

http://kutv.com/local/local_story_170134236.html


  Grandfather Of Bear Victim Blames Feds


       SLIDESHOW: Utah Is Black Bear Country
      <http://kutv.com/slideshows/local_slideshow_169115352>


       SLIDESHOW: Wildlife Officials Kill Black Bear
      <http://kutv.com/slideshows/local_slideshow_169154022>

/PROVO/ The grandfather of an 11-year-old boy who was killed by a black 
bear blamed authorities Tuesday for not warning that the hulking animal 
was believed to have harassed another group of campers at the same site 
hours earlier.

Eldon Ives said the U.S. Forest Service should have shut down a nearby 
30-site campground and warned everybody around that a dangerous bear was 
loose on a flank of 11,749-foot Mount Timpanogos, about 30 miles 
southeast of Salt Lake City.

``We're hoping that the Forest Service will do a better job protecting 
campers,'' Eldon Ives told reporters at a news conference on his front 
lawn.

[original article continues]




and here's a link to another story: http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6183553

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Eric Lee (GAMES) wrote:
> Shauna wrote:
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> So where is the proof that a bear had anything to do with this murder?
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> The article says they found the boy's body about 400 yards away from the tent and although it doesn't go into detail, presumably the cause of death (bite marks, etc) would have been pretty obvious.
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> There is, however, no evidence in this article that the family made any particular mistakes, or that the bear was habituated to human food, or that the family is blaming the authorities as Tortoise implied.  Maybe there are other articles with more details . . .
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> Eric
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