Man ‘seriously injured’ in Grand Teton National Park bear encounter

TETON COUNTY, Wyoming – A man was reportedly injured by a carnivore successful Grand Teton National Park connected Sunday.

According to a news merchandise from nan Grand Teton National Park Service, a 35-year-old man from Massachusetts was “seriously injured” by a carnivore adjacent Signal Mountain Summit Road successful Moran, Wyoming Sunday afternoon.

Grand Teton National Park rangers and Teton County Search and Rescue unit supply emergency aesculapian attraction erstwhile they arrived and airlifted nan diligent via chopper to an ambulance.

The man was past taken to St. John’s Hospital successful Jackson. He is reportedly successful unchangeable information and is expected to retrieve fully.

Though officials are still investigating, they judge nan onslaught came from a “surprise brushwood pinch 2 grizzly bears, pinch 1 of nan bears contacting and injuring nan visitor.”

The Signal Mountain Summit Road and Signal Mountain Trail are presently closed to each nationalist entry.

Officials connection nan pursuing tips to thief forestall a carnivore encounter:

1. Never time off your nutrient unattended unless it is decently secured.
2. Keep a cleanable campy and adhere to each nutrient retention orders. Store each attractants, including coolers, cooking gear, pet food, and toiletries, wrong a bear-resistant nutrient locker (i.e. carnivore box) aliases a hard-sided conveyance pinch nan windows rolled up.
3. Properly shop garbage until you tin deposit it into a bear-resistant dumpster.
4. Do not eat aliases navigator successful your tent, and ne'er support nutrient aliases different scented items successful your tent.
5. Please respect each wildlife closure areas.
6. If you spot a bear, please springiness it space. Always enactment astatine slightest 100 yards away. If you take to watch aliases photograph nan bear, usage a spotting scope, binoculars, aliases telephoto lens. Park successful designated areas, and ne'er artifact recreation lanes. Follow nan directions of unit successful places wherever bears are sighted.

If you are exploring nan backcountry:

1. Be alert and alert of your surroundings.
2. Make noise, particularly successful areas pinch constricted visibility aliases erstwhile sound is muffled (e.g., adjacent streams aliases erstwhile it is windy).
3. Carry carnivore spray, cognize really to usage it, and support it readily accessible.
4. Hike successful groups of 3 aliases much people.
5. Do not run. Back distant slow if you brushwood a bear.