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Grizzly bear, state mammal of Montana. There are 115 mammal species known to occur in Montana. [1] Among Montana's mammals, three are listed as endangered or threatened and the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks lists a number of species as species of concern. [2]
On February 14, 1914, in the mountains at Jackson's creek 10 miles south of Helena, Montana, a prospector named Pierce reported he found the skeleton of a bear with a bullet wound in its skull along with the dead skeleton of a dog and faded bits of a woman's dress in the bushes; Pierce did not find a body of a woman but believed that the bear ...
In the late afternoon, some of the men in the rear boats spotted a grizzly bear sleeping on a sandbar. Six men approached the bear, which woke up and attacked them. Four men shot the bear (with two bullets going through its lungs), but it continued to charge. Two more men shot the bear, but the men were forced to flee back to the river.
Authorities have closed portions of Custer Gallatin National Forest just outside of Big Sky, Montana, after a person was attacked by a grizzly bear while hunting.
A 72-year-old man picking huckleberries in Montana shot and killed a grizzly bear after it attacked in a surprise encounter and injured him badly enough that he had to be hospitalized, authorities ...
The Snowcrest Range, el. 10,581 feet (3,225 m), [1] is a small mountain range southeast of Dillon, Montana in Madison County, Montana. The Snowcrest and adjacent Gravelly Range is one of Montana's most popular hunting grounds. [2] The two mountain ranges are home to nearly 10,000 elk and a growing population of grizzly bears. [2]
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Bear pelts were usually sold for 2–20 dollars in the 1860s. [13] Grizzly bear hunting in Northern California in 1882. Between 1850 and 1920 grizzly bear were eliminated from 95% of their original range, with extirpation occurring earliest on the Great Plains and later in remote mountainous areas.