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A grizzly attacked and injured a hunter in northwest Wyoming on Saturday, authorities say.

The 45-year-old man call 911 at 7:38 a.m. Saturday to report that he had been mauled by a grizzly bear and needed help, according to the Park County Sheriff's Office.

The hunter decided to attempt to ride out of the wilderness to meet emergency responders. A Park County search and rescue team found him at 9:34 a.m. on the north side of the Shoshone River. He received treatment about a half hour later by medics when he reached a staging area, the sheriff's office said.

The man was then flown to Billings, Montana, for additional care.

The mauling is being investigated by Wyoming Game and Fish.

More information...

https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/wyoming-hunter-attacked-by-grizzly-bear

Damn, hope he wasn't hurt too badly. At least the outcome was proper, as far as the bears go.

Depending on how bad he was hurt, that final score looks to be 3-0, the other way.

I just hunted that area a couple weeks ago. Lots of grizz!

Seeing one would be cool.

From a distance.

I've seen them many times. The closest was more than 30 years ago in the Bowron-Hagen valley East of Prince George BC. I was tree planting my way up a side hill, came to a false summit with a small dip before the actual summit. Coming over the summit was a grizzly about the size of a Percheron draft horse. He looked at me and I looked at him, then he began swaying his head back and forth in what I interpreted as a not terribly friendly gesture. There are two theories when tree planting. One is that you leave your food back down at the cache and the bear will go there and you won't see him. The other is to bring it with you and leave it for him to distract him. I did the latter. I set my lunch on the top of a stump and backed down the hill a bit. As soon as he was out of sight I ran down the hill as fast as I've ever moved in my life. Now the hill had a lot of stumps and logs across it so eventually I was taking 20' strides from stump to log all of the way down. I got to the bottom, climbed into the bus we used as a crummy and sat there with the rifle for the remainder of the day. It was a terrible contract with poor money to be made anyway. On the same job a grizzly came in to camp and tore up the cook tent.

The last time I saw one was while moose hunting up near Pink Mountain BC. We were driving around in a Geo Tracker 4x4 with the doors off and between us and a fire pond we saw what we thought was a large grizzly. As we got closer he retreated into the pond and swam across. He got out on the far side and I swear he was 1/3 the size with his fur matted down from the water. He shook and he was big again. I think he was a younger bear, probably a 3 year old. When he fills in with muscle and fat he's going to be a big'un.

When I hunted the Alaskan hwy especially near pink mountain I have been very close to them, my 375 H&H did not seem so big anymore.

I grew up around grizzly in Montana and never really felt threatened by them....as long as you gave them the respect they deserve.

It seems as though they're getting more and more aggressive, especially in WY where I have also been around several. Maybe folks these days just aren't as aware of their surroundings, or maybe the bears are just getting more brazen from basically being treated like gods. Maybe attacks are just being better reported these days or a combination of it all---but it is kind of eye opening how many attacks are happening these days.

Isn't it Biblically stated that in the end times animals will no long fear man?

They dont in Houston already.

A hunting season on them would help some.

A sow griz at 3 yards with 2 cubs 100 yards or so away isn't something one loses a mental picture of soon, if ever. Trust me on this.....

But she was a good bear. Those skid marks she left in the mud might have not been the only ones.

A biologist I know says that bears are of little concern if you keep them at least 1/4 inch away from your skin. Works for me.

In Houston?

Sounds like a target rich environment with its surplus of wild animals.

There’s more than this but I forget the location.