Taste for beef kills cub of famous Teton grizzly

In the days before he was killed by wildlife managers, the cub of famous Teton grizzly 399 was doing what his mother taught him to do: kill easy-to-catch ungulates. The problem was that bear No. 587 was killing cattle. Chronic livestock depredation was the cause of 587’s demise. It was a trait the bruin exhibited beginning not long after he was pushed away by his mother in 2008. When 587 went on a cattle-killing spree on a herd grazing in the Upper Green River drainage the first week of July, it was one episode too many, said Zack Turnbull, carnivore biologist with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Pinedale office. “He killed cattle in 2010, he killed sheep in 2010, he killed cattle in 2011,” Turnbull said. “He killed nine or 10 or more cattle in a three- or four-day period this year.”...more