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Grizzly Cub, Not Mama Shot

The Idaho Fish & Game Department has contacted the media to say that the grizzly killed by property owner Jeremy Hill was one of the two 2-year-old bear cubs and not the mother bear. The misinformation may have been the result of this line in a news release circulated by the Boundary County commissioners Monday: "The press has stated that the animal was just crossing his property. In fact, it was a female with two sub-adult cubs. Three Grizzly Bears in a yard with your children is at the very least a dangerous situation, and the children must be protected at all costs.” Corrected SR story here.

Question: Does it make a difference to you that the grizzly Jeremy Hill killed was one of the two cubs & not the mother bear?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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