After repeat visits on private land west of Cody, Wyoming officials decided to relocate a sub-adult female grizzly bear last week. The decision to relocate the bear was made by Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) large carnivore biologists, according to the agency, and is something that happens every year in an effort to limit human-grizzly conflicts.
This particular grizzly bear was relocated on Sept. 22 and was released to Squirrel Meadows, which is 27 miles northwest of Moran.
You can watch the YouTube video here.
WGFD worked in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. According to WGFD, the relocation site was selected based upon “the lack of human presence and the ability to release the bear several miles behind closed gates.”
6 Comments
Joseph urban
10/7/2020, 2:48:53 PM
Youre a writer... And thats the best story you can give us?? Go get us a story to read. Go get em Just saying
John Fragoulias
10/4/2020, 9:40:59 AM
The problem is not the bear, but people breeding like rabbits and taking away significant real-estate from nature and wildlife, people think they are so important, "the most dangerous animal on the planet is the human animal", in the grand scheme of things they are not, they are not more important than a fly on the wall. How exactly is the bear the problem, the bear would say that people are the problem, only if they could speak human. And I am an avid hunter and wildlife photographer.
Gary H
10/2/2020, 5:53:57 PM
They released a black bear in PA that caused significant property damage near Pittsburgh PA. They took is east of Brookville PA. There is 2 major highways and 2 major rivers in between where they relocated the bear and where the trouble began. 1 week later the bear was in the same trashcan....just saying.