Thursday, July 7, 2011

A Hiker Killed on Yellowstone National Park

A Hiker Killed on Yellowstone National Park - Hundreds of structures have been reinforced and are saved for theirarchitectural and historic significance, and researchers have examinedmore than 1,000 archaeological sites.

A tramp in Yellowstone National Park was killed by a grizzly bear sow Wednesday morning (July 6) after surprising the birth and her cubs along the popular Wapiti Lake trail.


It was the start time since 1986 that a visitor to the commons has been killed by a grizzly, according to a pressure release from the National Park Service.

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Altogether, about 28 people have been killed by bears in the preceding 10 years. Bearplanet.org maintains a list of known bear attacks.

Last summer, a camper was killed by a grey in late July in Montana`s Gallatin National Forest. Several other campers were injured in the same incident, when a bear bit or tore through several tents.

The adult female grizzly (about 10 to 15 years old) was captured along with three yearling cubs after that attack.

Yellowstone National Park, established by the U.S. Congress and sign into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, is a national park located mainly in the U.S. state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho. Yellowstone was the 1st home park in the world, and is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of the most popular features in the park. It has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is dominant.

Native Americans have lived in the Yellowstone region for at least 11,000 years. The area was bypassed during the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the former nineteenth century. Aside from visits by mountain men during the early-to-mid-19th century, organized exploration did not start until the later 1860s. The U.S. Army was licensed to supervise the common just after its establishment.

In 1917, administration of the common was transferred to the Home Park Service, which had been created the former year.

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