Report on grizzly attack in Gallatin NF unable to pinpoint reason for maulings
Wildlife experts have no explanation for why a grizzly sow and her three cubs rampaged through a campground outside Yellowstone National Park late last month, attacking two campers before killing and partially consuming a third.
A 70-page report released Monday portrayed a sow intent on killing humans in a campground that, while in the heart of grizzly territory, had not encountered any bear problems this year and which had been properly maintained and kept clean so as not to lure bears.
While a medical analysis (necropsy) of the sow showed her to be somewhat light in weight and infested with parasites, that alone did not explain why she led her cubs on a predatory attack on the Soda Butte Campground in the Gallatin National Forest just beyond Yellowstone's northeast entrance.