Grizzly Bear Kills Hiker Who Ignored Park Rules
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People never learn, and their flippant attitude toward the rules that govern safety can cost them and innocent animals their lives, as was the case of a backpacker and a grizzly bear in Denali National Park.
A backpacker killed by a grizzly bear in Alaska’s Denali National Park on Friday—the first fatal bear mauling in Alaska since 2005—ignored park rules about maintaining an adequate distance, according to photos recovered from his own camera, reports the Anchorage Daily News. The park requires visitors to keep at least a quarter-mile away from bears and to leave an area immediately if they find themselves closer than that—rules that were part of the training 49-year-old Richard White received when he applied for his permit.
But photos on White’s camera shows that he came within 50 yards of a grizzly on Friday and took pictures for at least eight minutes—the same bear that killed White a short time later. It was the first known fatal bear attack in the park’s 90-year history. Troopers killed the bear suspected of killing White the next day, after finding the male grizzly and another bear defending White’s body as a food source.
While I have sympathy for the hiker’s family, I also have sympathy for the bear, who should not have been killed for just being a bear.
Story edited from Newser summary.
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Americans have become accustomed to living in a society where it is everyone else’s responsibility to make sure they won’t get hurt. If you use your lawnmower to trim your hedges and slice your arm off, it’s the fault of the lawnmower manufacturer for not making it physically impossible for you to misuse it in a way that will be harmful to you. If it is physically possible to do something, it should not be something that can possibly hurt you. By all means kill the bear. Kill all the bears. Fill Denali with stuffed animals artistically posed so that idiots can safely get as close as they want to take photographs of them.
Wow. I agree with you Eve and hope you come back.
Add one more reason to the ever growing list of why I love animals more than people some days. Idiots think that bears are Winnie the Pooh, Paddington and Corduroy all rolled up in one and get shocked when this is not the case.
Poor bear. Killed for being a bear. My son thought this was very sad, and asked “Why did that guy get so close to the bear? Everyone knows you don’t do that.”
I’ve hiked Denali and Glacier and have seen a lot of bears. The best thing to do is stay away from them, as a matter of fact if you see them just move in the opposite direction especially if you see cubs about. Do not run under any circumstances. Timothy is right about having several people with you because numbers will intimidate bears and lessen the odds of a random attack. I agree with Marsha as well.
Maybe we should start killing people for being stupid people.
You’re absolutely correct… I’m trying get to put together a backpacking trip to Glacier National Park and don’t want to go if we have any less than four people. One of the people I am going with and others on a message board think I am being silly and shouldn’t worry about it. The chance of something bad happening may be small but you don’t want to mess around with grizzly bears – and the risk goes down more as you go with more people.
WHY did they kill the bear? As you said, he was just being a bear? Do we just want bears rhat fit our IDEA of a bear?