Authorities in Montana have not tried to track down a grizzly bear suspected in the fatal mauling of a hiker originally from Massachusetts last week because it did not appear to be a predatory attack, state and local officials said Monday.
Emigrant Peak towers over the Paradise Valley in Montana north of Yellowstone National Park, pictured in 2016. Authorities said Friday that a hiker was killed in the area in a suspected encounter with a grizzly bear.
Tracks left at the scene and the nature of the attack suggest that a grizzly killed him, Park County Sheriff Brad Bichler said. But Bichler said there was no indication the bear sought out Clouatre, meaning it could have been simply an unlucky encounter. Fatal grizzly bear attacks on people are rare. Predatory attacks — such as a 2010 attack near Cooke City in which a man was killed inside his tent at a campground — are even less common.
Clouatre, who was married with four children, was experienced in the backcountry, according to his friends and family. At the time of his death, he was in a remote area with lots of timber and ravines, searching for antlers shed by elk and other big game animals, Bichler said.
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