Grizzly Cub Rescue Spotlights Complex Relations in Bear Country

Over Easter weekend, a story played out in Dupuyer, Montana, when a sow grizzly bear protecting her cubs bit a hiker and had to be euthanized. A couple days later, the manager of the Boone and Crockett Club’s Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch, which is located about 10 miles west of Dupuyer, and his family…

saw her three cubs outside of town and caught them so that they wouldn’t die from starvation, be killed by a boar bear or freeze in a snowstorm that was already moving in to the area. Grizzly bears are expanding their range throughout Montana, but particularly on the Rocky Mountain Front where Dupuyer is located.