ISLAND PARK — Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials have killed a sub-adult male grizzly bear that had been frequenting a campground in the Island Park area, the department said in a news release on Saturday.
The bear was previously captured on July 11 near the Mill Creek Campground. Officials radio-marked and moved the bear to a more remote area after, they say, the bear had become habituated to humans and the Mill Creek/Rancho McCrea area.
After being relocated, the bear immediately returned to the Mill Creek area.
Fish and Game staff were in the process of setting a trap and capture equipment Friday evening, but after multiple attempts to encourage the bear to leave the area, Fish and Game says a “high public safety concern necessitated the need for lethal removal.”
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