My very good friend got Mauled to Death last night.
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KChunter71
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sorry to hear this buddy
Condolences to you and the family.
Here is the text of the article linked previously:
Bear kills man clearing a trail near his property in the Hope area
Update, 4:30 p.m. Monday: Troopers identified 46-year-old Daniel Schilling as the man killed by the bear, according to a statement.
Original story:
A man died in a bear attack Wednesday night that occurred off a trail near his property in the Hope area on the Kenai Peninsula, officials said Thursday.
Alaska State Troopers were notified at 10:07 p.m. of the mauling, the agency said in a report early Thursday.
The man had been clearing a trail on Chugach National Forest land about a mile behind his property off Mile 8 of the Hope Highway, troopers said. The property is near the 19th-century mining town of Sunrise City, with a population of 12.
“His wife became concerned when he was overdue, and their dog, which had been with him, returned home alone,” troopers said.
The man’s wounds were consistent with a bear attack, troopers said.
Cynthia Wardlow, Anchorage regional supervisor with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said that staff is assisting state troopers and the U.S. Forest Service on an investigation into the attack. They are searching for evidence such as hair, paw print measurements and scat to determine the species of the bear.
“Based on preliminary samples that were found at the site, we believe this was a brown bear attack,” Wardlow said.
Clay Adam, deputy chief of Cooper Landing Emergency Services, said family and neighbors located the body in the area where the man had been working.
The man’s cabin is about 350 yards off the Hope Highway, Adam said, and the scene of the mauling was about a 45-minute hike up a mountain behind the cabin. Troopers described the trail as not ATV-accessible.
Cooper Landing Emergency Services, arriving at the cabin around 10:30 p.m., was the first emergency crew on site, Adam said. Neighbors with firearms who visited the scene and returned to the cabin confirmed that the man could not have survived the attack, Adam said.
With darkness coming, and after communicating with troopers who had not yet arrived, emergency officials decided that no one should return to the scene until morning when it was safer, Adam said.
“Three or four gentlemen said there was nothing we could do,” Adam said. “It was determined it was in everyone’s best interest to not disturb the scene until it could be processed appropriately.”
“We consoled his wife, and got all the information we could,” he said.
Emergency services departments from Hope and Moose Pass also responded to the call, Cooper Landing Emergency Services said on Facebook, adding that troopers would be recovering the victim Thursday.
“Please respect this victim and their family and the troopers who are hiking in to this difficult, dangerous and tragic scene,” the department said in the post.
Cooper Landing Emergency Services said bears have been active in “residential areas as well as at the Russian and Kenai River so please continue to be bear aware.”
Carol Lagodich, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Forest Service, which manages the Chugach National Forest, said the agency will post signs warning hikers of an aggressive bear. She described the trail as not easily accessible.
Troopers, the Forest Service and Fish and Game staff are working to gather more evidence and information about how and why the fatal attack occurred, according to Wardlow.
It’s early in the investigation and a determination will not be made “until we have a much better sense of what’s going on,” she said.
Most bear encounters do not result in injuries to humans, she said.
“It’s very rare that someone is injured by a bear and even more rare that someone would be killed,” Wardlow said. “It’s always a very tragic situation.”
She said it’s important for anyone active in the Alaska outdoors to understand bear behavior and how to respond appropriately because each encounter is different.
“A lot of it depends on very specific circumstances, like does the bear even see you?” she said. “Is the bear curious? Does the bear respond if you try to scare it off or does it recognize that you’re a human? Any of those things.”
Daily News reporter Emily Goodykoontz contributed.
Here is the text of the article linked previously:
Bear kills man clearing a trail near his property in the Hope area
Update, 4:30 p.m. Monday: Troopers identified 46-year-old Daniel Schilling as the man killed by the bear, according to a statement.
Original story:
A man died in a bear attack Wednesday night that occurred off a trail near his property in the Hope area on the Kenai Peninsula, officials said Thursday.
Alaska State Troopers were notified at 10:07 p.m. of the mauling, the agency said in a report early Thursday.
The man had been clearing a trail on Chugach National Forest land about a mile behind his property off Mile 8 of the Hope Highway, troopers said. The property is near the 19th-century mining town of Sunrise City, with a population of 12.
“His wife became concerned when he was overdue, and their dog, which had been with him, returned home alone,” troopers said.
The man’s wounds were consistent with a bear attack, troopers said.
Cynthia Wardlow, Anchorage regional supervisor with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said that staff is assisting state troopers and the U.S. Forest Service on an investigation into the attack. They are searching for evidence such as hair, paw print measurements and scat to determine the species of the bear.
“Based on preliminary samples that were found at the site, we believe this was a brown bear attack,” Wardlow said.
Clay Adam, deputy chief of Cooper Landing Emergency Services, said family and neighbors located the body in the area where the man had been working.
The man’s cabin is about 350 yards off the Hope Highway, Adam said, and the scene of the mauling was about a 45-minute hike up a mountain behind the cabin. Troopers described the trail as not ATV-accessible.
Cooper Landing Emergency Services, arriving at the cabin around 10:30 p.m., was the first emergency crew on site, Adam said. Neighbors with firearms who visited the scene and returned to the cabin confirmed that the man could not have survived the attack, Adam said.
With darkness coming, and after communicating with troopers who had not yet arrived, emergency officials decided that no one should return to the scene until morning when it was safer, Adam said.
“Three or four gentlemen said there was nothing we could do,” Adam said. “It was determined it was in everyone’s best interest to not disturb the scene until it could be processed appropriately.”
“We consoled his wife, and got all the information we could,” he said.
Emergency services departments from Hope and Moose Pass also responded to the call, Cooper Landing Emergency Services said on Facebook, adding that troopers would be recovering the victim Thursday.
“Please respect this victim and their family and the troopers who are hiking in to this difficult, dangerous and tragic scene,” the department said in the post.
Cooper Landing Emergency Services said bears have been active in “residential areas as well as at the Russian and Kenai River so please continue to be bear aware.”
Carol Lagodich, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Forest Service, which manages the Chugach National Forest, said the agency will post signs warning hikers of an aggressive bear. She described the trail as not easily accessible.
Troopers, the Forest Service and Fish and Game staff are working to gather more evidence and information about how and why the fatal attack occurred, according to Wardlow.
It’s early in the investigation and a determination will not be made “until we have a much better sense of what’s going on,” she said.
Most bear encounters do not result in injuries to humans, she said.
“It’s very rare that someone is injured by a bear and even more rare that someone would be killed,” Wardlow said. “It’s always a very tragic situation.”
She said it’s important for anyone active in the Alaska outdoors to understand bear behavior and how to respond appropriately because each encounter is different.
“A lot of it depends on very specific circumstances, like does the bear even see you?” she said. “Is the bear curious? Does the bear respond if you try to scare it off or does it recognize that you’re a human? Any of those things.”
Daily News reporter Emily Goodykoontz contributed.
AK Troutbum
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Just a follow up to this story.
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Fish and Game kills 4 bears in relation to deadly bear mauling in Hope
The department has now killed one female brown bear and three female black bears near the location of the mauling.
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Sourdough
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FIFTY Years ago I had to kill the first of many-many charging Bears.........This is an account of that first..........Which just happened to have been right here on the Hope Road about mile (9) Nine. Dan was killed at mile (8) Eight last week.
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1970' HOPE ROAD CHARGING Bear recount........just one of a few hundred.
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Oh' The stories I could tell.....
Some of you must know Lance T. former head of Habitat at Alaska F&G. In about 70' three of us were engaged in unofficial Porcupine control. Back then there were thousands of porcupines, I don't know why. I shot 74 in 60 days that summer. (In case you are prone to being judgmental, save it.....I don't care).
So we were shooting porky-pines between Los Anchorage and lovely Hope, Alaska. It was about 11:15 mid-May and the last, or nearly last light. We were on the rough "Dirt" road that was the Hope Road. Roughly mile 9'ish. We saw a large'ish Black Bear cross the road, and we pulled up and stopped at the spot.
Now Lance and the other guy both had .22 LR pistols only, for executing Porky-pines. I had a Winchester model 100 in .308 Win. w/ a tip-off scope. (Those tip-off mounts were popular back fifty years ago)
So we are all on the passenger's side of the truck, and we are listening to this God awful crying and thrashing just fifteen or twenty feet away. It went on and on, and we figured that it was a sow spanking and driving cubs up a tree.
It was almost dark, and we could hear the crashing coming to us, In one heart beat a bear busted out of the dark woods/alders/willows from about six or eight feet, coming straight a Lance T. With out thinking From the hip I shot the bear as it was with-in a foot or two of Lance T. The bear turned and went 180* the way it had come, back into the dark woods.
Now all Hell broke-out 15 feet away, crying and thrashing, and crashing, and it is now dark-dark. The story is getting long, so I'll wrap it up. I tipped off the scope, went in after the wounded bear (Which was hit center behind the shoulder). I skillfully missed the badly wounded bear three times form 12 feet with iron sights. The bear was just thrashing around NOT coming at me. I eventually flipped the scope back up, and could clearly see the bear and finished it.
OK, This is what is educational. There were NO bear cubs. The first thing I encountered on entering the woods was a day old moose calf that had a bite in the small of the back and very alive but paralyzed. Next at about 10 feet was the wounded bear thrashing around, and a P!zzed'off cow that was about 12 feet away and lurching at the bear. The calf was crying, the cow was exhaling hard, and the bear was flopping around and crying also.
We figured that what happened is that we had not seen the cow and calf cross the road, only the bear right behind. And after the bear bit the calf in the small of the back, the cow charged the bear, and the bear retreating from the cow ran straight at Lance T. The bear was trapped between the truck and the cow. Wow I am exhausted. "Oh' but the stores I could tell"........
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1970' HOPE ROAD CHARGING Bear recount........just one of a few hundred.
______________________________________________
Oh' The stories I could tell.....
Some of you must know Lance T. former head of Habitat at Alaska F&G. In about 70' three of us were engaged in unofficial Porcupine control. Back then there were thousands of porcupines, I don't know why. I shot 74 in 60 days that summer. (In case you are prone to being judgmental, save it.....I don't care).
So we were shooting porky-pines between Los Anchorage and lovely Hope, Alaska. It was about 11:15 mid-May and the last, or nearly last light. We were on the rough "Dirt" road that was the Hope Road. Roughly mile 9'ish. We saw a large'ish Black Bear cross the road, and we pulled up and stopped at the spot.
Now Lance and the other guy both had .22 LR pistols only, for executing Porky-pines. I had a Winchester model 100 in .308 Win. w/ a tip-off scope. (Those tip-off mounts were popular back fifty years ago)
So we are all on the passenger's side of the truck, and we are listening to this God awful crying and thrashing just fifteen or twenty feet away. It went on and on, and we figured that it was a sow spanking and driving cubs up a tree.
It was almost dark, and we could hear the crashing coming to us, In one heart beat a bear busted out of the dark woods/alders/willows from about six or eight feet, coming straight a Lance T. With out thinking From the hip I shot the bear as it was with-in a foot or two of Lance T. The bear turned and went 180* the way it had come, back into the dark woods.
Now all Hell broke-out 15 feet away, crying and thrashing, and crashing, and it is now dark-dark. The story is getting long, so I'll wrap it up. I tipped off the scope, went in after the wounded bear (Which was hit center behind the shoulder). I skillfully missed the badly wounded bear three times form 12 feet with iron sights. The bear was just thrashing around NOT coming at me. I eventually flipped the scope back up, and could clearly see the bear and finished it.
OK, This is what is educational. There were NO bear cubs. The first thing I encountered on entering the woods was a day old moose calf that had a bite in the small of the back and very alive but paralyzed. Next at about 10 feet was the wounded bear thrashing around, and a P!zzed'off cow that was about 12 feet away and lurching at the bear. The calf was crying, the cow was exhaling hard, and the bear was flopping around and crying also.
We figured that what happened is that we had not seen the cow and calf cross the road, only the bear right behind. And after the bear bit the calf in the small of the back, the cow charged the bear, and the bear retreating from the cow ran straight at Lance T. The bear was trapped between the truck and the cow. Wow I am exhausted. "Oh' but the stores I could tell"........
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VernAK
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Sourdough,
I wont hold it against you for shooting porkies but if they get thick again, please give me a call.
I wont hold it against you for shooting porkies but if they get thick again, please give me a call.
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