Bear Attack in Hobble Creek Canyon
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From the DNR Facebook page:
“Earlier today, a bear entered a campsite in the left fork of Hobble Creek Canyon. (The campground was on private property toward the top of the canyon.) The bear disturbed a tent, and a boy received minor scratches on his back. Thankfully, he is expected to be okay. With help from USDA Wildlife Services, the Division was able to quickly locate the bear about 400 feet from the tent. It was euthanized, per Division policy. Any time a bear injures a human or loses fear of people, it is euthanized as a safety precaution.”
Bear Attack in Hobble Creek Canyon
SPRINGVILLE, Utah - A boy suffered minor cuts after a bear wandered into a campsite in Hobble Creek Canyon Tuesday morning, and wildlife officials have euthanized a bear they believe was responsible.
The bear entered the Buck Hollow Boy Scout Camp in the left fork of Hobble Creek Canyon around 6 a.m.
The campground area is on private property toward the top of the canyon
“This is definitely a spot we will see black bears,” said Faith Heaton Jolley with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resoures.
"The scratch wasn’t severe," Jolley said. "He’s not going to require stitches, it didn’t sound like. He was not hospitalized or transported."
DWR staff say the small two-year-old male bear was likely just curious of the tent unknowingly placed on an animal trail.
Dogs tracked and treed the bear about 400 yards from the tent where it was euthanized. DWR’s policy is to kill the wild animal after it injures a person.
"It’s always a little sad when you have to put an animal down," said DWR Game Mammals Coordinator Daren DeBloois. "That’s why we encourage people to avoid these conflicts."
Wildlife officials are confident that bear is the one that came to the campsite, and they said it is their policy to euthanize bears that do not demonstrate a fear of humans.
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