20 Bears Killed or Relocated in Rockies

Twenty grizzlies were killed or removed from the wild this year in the Northern Rockies, many of them the result of man’s development into bear country, the federal government’s top bear biologist said. The Northern Rockies include the Glacier National Park area in Montana and the mountain ranges south of the park. Only 17% of the 9,500 square miles is privately owned, but those private lands are the source of more than 60% of the human-bear conflicts, said Chris Servheen, grizzly recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.