thank you for the accuracy Mark.

'reasons not understood'....that's worrisome !

----- Original Message -----
From: "mark drillock" <mdrillock@COX.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: camping amidst bears, safety question

> Those are not the facts as I read them a few months ago. 3 tents with
> people in them were attacked late at night. All of the victims had their
> food properly stored in bear boxes in the camp. The tents were not
> adjacent but quite spread apart at different locations. The bears
> attacked for reasons not understood.
>
> Mark
>
> Dave Mcneely wrote:
>> that is the incident I mentioned in an earlier post, Scott.  Two people
>> were killed, attacked in their tents.  Mama and two cubs, cubs were older
>> cubs.  They were relocated.  Mama was euthanized.  Mama had been guilty
>> of camp raiding before.   Too bad about the two people, but too bad about
>> the bears, too.  They were punished for trying to make a living.  At
>> least the guys had committed a crime (they had food in their tent, a
>> regular old on the ground tent.  In grizzly country.
>>
>> mcneely
>>
>> ---- Scott Daniel - Turbovans<scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>  wrote:
>>> exactly.
>>> last summer, near Kalispell MT I think..
>>> a tent-sleeping camper or two were attacked right in their tents at
>>> night..
>>> one person killed for sure.
>>> I think it was a mama bear and two cubs ..
>>> but right smack in a normally-feels-safe national forest campground I
>>> believe.
>>>
>>