Others may have a collar replaced if it is near the end of its useful lifespan. Brightly colored warning signs identify bait stations and trap sites. Visitors are required to heed these signs and not enter closed areas. In , a man was killed by a grizzly bear seven miles east of Yellowstone National Park after wandering into a capture site.
Trapping efforts will continue May 8 through October at various locations throughout the park. Park visitors should travel in groups and make loud noises by calling out or clapping their hands at frequent intervals, especially near streams, and at blind spots on trails. These actions help avoid surprise bear encounters.
Do not approach any wildlife; instead, use binoculars, telescopes, or telephoto lenses to get a closer look. The slower speed gives the grizzly bear increased time to become alerted to my presence and to give them time to get off the trail.
Since starting to use this tactic, I've yet to see a grizzly bear on any of my hikes, although I've known that they were around. A fifth tip is to avoid any perfume, cologne or other smelly "topical" things. Grizzly Bears have an incredible sense of smell, and will investigate something that smells interesting.
For example, don't use a scented sunscreen. Much to my amazement, I came across a Huckleberry Scented Sunscreen in a local department store in Kalispell just outside of Glacier. While smelling like a huckleberry may be great for the Florida beaches, it is an absolutely wonderful way to attract grizzly bears from miles around when hiking in Glacier National Park. A grizzly bear in Glacier National Park primarily eats berries, so smelling like a berry is not recommended! Finally, stay alert!
I said it before and I'll say it again. Staying alert is the best way to avoid problem grizzly bear encounters. Both of the times I've had problems with bears is when I've let my guard down. I let my guard down and didn't make any noise and walked very quickly and surprise - there the grizzly bears were! So, this information should help you avoid encounters with grizzly bears. However, if you do happen to encounter a grizzly bear despite all this, what do you do? Go to the next page for tips on surviving encounters with Grizzly Bears.
Use it to deter charging Grizzly Bears by spraying this pepper spray into their eyes. Available from Amazon. Hiking Glacier National Park About : Completely revised and updated, this guide features more than miles of trails for discovering Glacier and Waterton Lakes. Lists hikes for all abilities. Grizzly bears also have a reputation of being the second most dangerous bear species after the polar bear. Grizzly hibernate during the winter months, but when the weather starts to warm up in the spring, they emerge from their dens, looking for food.
That usually happens in April. Their breeding season lasts from May to July. When temperatures drop, bears go back into hibernation. The cubs are born in January and spend their first months of life in the den.
Encounters with grizzly bears are quite common on the east side of Glacier since bears often descend to lowland meadows and forests searching for food in the summer. Keep in mind that bears are dangerous, so it's prohibited to approach them closer than yards about 90 meters. Make a lot of noise when hiking in the bear country, so a bear can hear you and run away. If you can't avoid the encounter, use a bear spray to deter bear attacks. Bears are most active early in the morning, late in the day, or after dark.
Sign In. Last updated: August 27, Best time April—November. Consider that roughly two million people visit Glacier each year, and more than one million venture into the backcountry. Some people in the park were even using garbage to deliberately lure grizzlies into contact with humans. Each evening at a rustic hotel called the Granite Park Chalet, workers would dump pounds of leftover food from the dining room into an outdoor pit. For these bears, humans had become a source of food.
The attacks, immortalized in the bestselling book Night of the Grizzlies, were provoked in part by the hordes of park visitors who had left a trail of trash behind over the years, acclimating the grizzlies to their presence and making them associate humans with food, according to a PBS documentary.
In Yosemite, the average 12 to 15 fatalities a year is roughly divided in half by accidents and other deaths such as heart attacks. These important predators, native to the Americas, are a natural part of the Yosemite landscape.
The intent is not to harm the bear, but to scare it from the area and restore its natural fear of people by providing a negative experience. Pee, by any other name, still smells the same, and bears, lions, and other predators are interested in anything that smells interesting.
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