Idaho Fish and Game confirms first grizzly bear sighting west of I-15

DUBOIS — Idaho Fish and Game officials are confirming nan first grizzly carnivore sighting successful nan Dubois area.

Trail camera footage provided to Fish and Game confirms nan beingness of a grizzly carnivore successful Game Management Unit 59. That’s westbound and crossed Interstate 15 from Dubois successful Clark County, according to James Brower pinch Fish and Game. The carnivore was photographed connected May 31.

It’s chartless if nan carnivore is still successful nan area, but hunters and different wood users should beryllium “bear aware,” a news merchandise connected Tuesday said. 

As grizzly carnivore populations expand, bears are venturing into caller areas to find food, mates, and different resources, officials said. 

The pursuing are tips for being safe and recreating successful carnivore country: 

• Carry carnivore spray. Keep it accessible and wrong reach.
• Hunt pinch partners and make each different alert of plans.
• Look for grizzly carnivore signs, including caller tracks, scats, digs, and carcasses aliases gut piles.
  Be judge of your target earlier shooting a bear.
• Retrieve crippled nutrient arsenic quickly arsenic imaginable and attack nan star cautiously and loudly.
• Hang meat, nutrient and garbage astatine slightest 200 yards from camp, 10 feet disconnected nan crushed and 4 feet from nan vertical support.
• When not hunting, make noise, particularly astir creeks and heavy vegetation. Most attacks hap by inadvertently astonishing a carnivore astatine adjacent range.

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