Yellowstone Black Bear Euthanized After Repeatedly Targeting Campers' Food

Yellowstone National Park Kills First Black Bear In 5 Years After It Becomes “Food-Conditioned”

The decision was made after the bear damaged a tent and outsmarted food storage defenses.

Black Bear Killed by Yellowstone Park Staff July 11 - SweetwaterNOW

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS — At approximately 5 p.m. July 11, Yellowstone National Park staff killed an adult female black bear following a series of incidents at a backcountry campsite located in the Blacktail Deer Creek drainage in the northern part of the park. On June 7, the bear crushed an unoccupied tent at the campsite. A few

Park Service Kills "Human Food-Conditioned" Black Bear In Yellowstone

The National Park Service announced Thursday that a black bear in Yellowstone was killed because it had developed a taste for human food. The last straw was ransacking a tent and tearing down food storage poles.

Yellowstone black bear killed after crushing tent, climbing food storage pole

The Park Service announced the incidents, which began more than a month earlier at a campsite along the Blacktail Deer Creek drainage in the park's Northern Range.

Yellowstone National Park kills black bear

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. — Yellowstone National Park staff recently killed an adult female black bear following a number of incidents in the northern

Yellowstone Black Bear euthanized after repeatedly targeting campers' food

"We go to great lengths to protect bears and prevent them from gaining access to human food in all areas of the park,” said Kerry Gunther, Yellowstone bear management biologist. "But occasionally, a bear outsmarts us or overcomes our defenses. When that happens, we sometimes have to make the difficult decision to remove the bear from the population to protect people and property."