Woman Shoots Grizzly, Now Worries

A 2-year-old male grizzly bear threatening a North Idaho family was shot and ultimately killed on Tuesday. Now Barbara Casey, who shot the bear, is worried she’s in trouble for killing a federally protected species. “I don’t want to go to prison for saving my family and my animals,” Casey said. Lucas Swanson, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game conservation officer who responded to the call, said the incident is under investigation. Grizzly bears can only be legally killed when they’re threatening human life, he said. Swanson wouldn’t comment on specifics of the investigation. He said it could take several months before Fish and Game releases a report on the incident. Casey said she was inside her home in Moyie Springs in Boundary County when her 14-year-old daughter Kaylee Rose came rushing into the house saying there was a bear in the backyard. “I thought, ‘Oh, that’s kind of cool; the kids will see a black bear. We will scare it off with some pans,’ ” Casey said/ Eli Francovich , SR. More here.

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