Well the Silver tips are headed east to Nebraska, heard they killed one in the Bighorn Mountains outside Tensleep Wy. They will never make it there to many people conflicts and cattle.

Was there a season recently opened up in the Big Horns or was it killed doing livestock depredation or human endangerment?

No season in the bighorns, I've never heard of one there til now l

They are now being seen in the Pryor mountains so why not the Bighorns?
Spreading out is what unchecked predators do for a living.

Osky

T. Roosevelt killed a few there a little over a 100 years ago.

Just bears…. MEH…….

Here's the story:

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/0...med-as-bear-killed-for-attacking-cattle/

That’s an interesting cause for extermination, area unsuitable for bear habitation. Bears were pretty much the number one fear of the first whites and the then Indians inhabiting the prairies. Many stories told.
I don’t fault the wildlife folks for using that reasoning for dispatching bears, I just wish they would use the same reasoning for wolves.

Osky

I agree Osky^^^

I think Joe Pickett is on the case

Many years ago while elk hunting near Red Lodge I seen a grizzly hunting pika's in a rock slide in the Beartooth mtns so it's really not that hard to believe that one went over to the Big Horns .

This bear didn't have a clue I was there as it was quite a ways away from me and even further from my camp and yes the elk weren't to be found on that trip because of it .

I vividly recall getting a phone call from an employee of the National Wildlife Federation about 20 years ago He was asking for donations to help the endanger grizzly population in the Yellowstone National Park I tried to explain the grizzly bear was not an endangered animal and was thriving in most of it's current habitat And he kept telling me in the Yellowstone aera they where indeed under stress concerning the danger they where facing in Montana and Wyoming He was frustrated by my lack of knowledge about the reason I needed to send lots of money on an ongoing basis to protect the grizzly in that part of their territory At some point I told him that it was quite easy for an employee of the National Wildlife Federation living in VA and working in an air condition office to make decisions that affect a cattle rancher that was losing calves to his so called endangered animal

Agree.

My Uncle guided and logged near
Ten Sleep for a decade.
Never mentioned them but
that was long ago and always changing.
They are cool until on "my" livestock.

A friend of mine hunted elk with a guide somewhere out there in grizzly country. The guide said gun shots were like a dinner bell to a grizzly.

All true, I think the last grizzly was killed in the Bighorns in the 1920s The last legal ones were killed in the Northwest part of the state in the early 1970s . They have there place in Wy and other parts of the west but it has got to be a big area with folks that will accept them for what they are.

They live in Anchorage. I guess Alaskans ( even Anchorage people) have a higher tolerance for them.

“The location of the conflict was in the basin of the Bighorn Mountains and more than 80 miles from the eastern boundary of what is known as the Demographic Monitoring Area — the area considered biologically and socially suitable for grizzly bears,” according to Game and Fish."

There is some weird stuff that happens in the lower 48. Like trying to keep wildlife in a "socially suitable" area. Maybe try a fence.

Joe Pickett solved the grizzly problem in the most recent C.J. Box book.