It’s easy to get angry and speculate as to exactly what happened when a 70-year-old man left his Yellowstone Park cabin and went hiking and is believed to have been the victim of death by a grizzly attack. So, I think I will.

Erwin Frank Evert left his Kitty Creek cabin to go hiking and it is believed he encountered a large male grizzly bear that researchers had just finished tranquilizing and studying. According to Google News via the AP, researchers had left the drugged bear to wake up on its own.

When Evert didn’t return, his wife went looking for him and met one of the bear researchers. The researchers had been getting ready to leave the area but one of them returned to the place where they had found the bear in a previously set trap, then tranquilized the animal for study.

The researcher found Evert’s body where they had left the bear to wake up, about two miles from Evert’s cabin.

And so I’ll speculate and get angry. If Evert went hiking in this area, does this indicate to anyone else that probably he wasn’t bushwhacking but was hiking through “designated” hiking areas? Why was the bear left unattended to wake up on his own?

Even if Evert was hiking in the woods, off unmarked trails, why would a drugged up grizzly bear be left alone to wake up on his own?

It is my opinion that someone should have remained behind to monitor the bear from a safe distance until the bear woke up and was well on his way. Was this not done because it is so rare that grizzlies will attack a human? Asked facetiously. Is this the result of the death of a man due to repeated ignorance by “authorities”? Asked honestly.

It is also my opinion that several large male grizzly bears should be tranquilized and stacked up in one small, semi-contained area and all of the researchers involved in this study be staked to the ground next to the bears. That way they can observe what really happens when bears wake up from their drug-enduced trip.

Idiots!

Tom Remington

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