Bear attack on hiker closes trail in Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. – A path from Yellowstone National Park remained closed Wednesday after a possible Grizzly Bear attacked a hiker, leaving him with serious but not deadly injuries.
The 29-year-old man suffered breast injuries and arm during Tuesday’s attack on the Troubles Troubles northeast of Lake Yellowstone.
The man met 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) bear in the hinterland and sprayed the bear while he was starting to attack, park officials said in a statement.
The doctors of the National Park Service went out with the hiker. He was then taken to a park clinic and flew to a neighboring hospital.
Park officials said on Wednesday that they had no more information, including the name of man, where he came from and updated.
It was the first bear attack on the park since a Grizzly injured a hiker in the Mammoth Hot Springs area in 2021. This hiker was able to go alone.
A Grizzly killed a woman west of Yellowstone in 2023.
The bear in the last attack will not be moved or killed because he attacked during a surprise meeting and did not show any unnatural behavior, according to park officials.
DNA analysis could determine the species. The man believed that it was a black bear, but his location, his size and his behavior suggested that it was a grizzly grizzlyman, according to the press release.
Grizzlis and black bears can sometimes be difficult to distinguish. But the grizzly ones become much larger – up to twice as large – and black bears generally have darker coloring.
Grizzlis are protected by the federal government as a species threatened in the 48 US lower states, where their number rebounded from around 700 in the 1970s to around 2,000 today.
