Wildlife workers on Tuesday halted their efforts to capture a grizzly bear that killed a woman over the weekend near Yellowstone National Park after finding no sign of the animal since the day of the attack.
over the weekend near Yellowstone National Park after finding no sign of the animal since the day of the attack.
"The information that we have suggests that this was defensive behavior, and it's completely normal and natural for grizzly bears," said Morgan Jacobsen with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. "We don’t know for sure because we have no witnesses and we haven’t recovered a bear."Woman dies after grizzly bear encounter near Yellowstone National Park
Her mother, Janet Adamson, said her daughter — a former teacher from Kansas who left education to backpack across part of the U.S. and later wrote a book about her experiences — "died doing what she loved." The attack occurred along a trail used by hikers, horseback riders and offroad vehicles about 8 miles from West Yellowstone, a busy gateway community for the national park.
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