Conservation officers are reminding British Columbians to be bear aware, after another person was attacked by a grizzly bear – the fourth incident already this month. “People are going to have to be particularly vigilant over the next two months until these bears go in hibernation,” cautions conservation officer Sergeant Cam Schley of Cranbrook.
A man was hunting northeast of Sparwood, in the Grave Prairie area, when he came across a mother bear and her cub around 7:30 this morning.
“The hunter was just out walking this morning, and was just in the wrong place and the wrong time. There appears to have been nothing that the hunter could have done any differently to have prevented this,” says Schley.
The man suffered serious, but non-life threatening injuries, and managed to make his way to Sparwood Hospital.
The Grave Prairie site is closed to the public while conservation officers investigate and clean up an elk carcass in the area. Continue – http://globalnews.ca/news/2218631/grizzly-attack-near-sparwood-fourth-in-b-c-in-ten-days/