"The bear started moving toward us," Gildart said. Both women, Julie Helgeson, 19, of Albert Lea, Minnesota, and Michele Koons, 19, of San Diego, California, died of their injuries. At dawn, they came down and ran for the nearest ranger station.
The four friends shot out of their bags, one with Squirt in tow, and climbed up into the trees. "She was mangled beyond belief. "These were unusual situations," Shea said. "We didn't realize the extent which garbage controlled bears and habituation was kind of a new word," Gildart said.
"I found the whole thing to be pretty disagreeable," Shea said. © 2020 www.greatfallstribune.com. A few weeks before that, the Hungry Horse News ran a photo of what is believed to be the same bear, though they misidentified it as a black bear because of its small size. When he arrived at the scene, fellow ranger Leonard Landa had already arrived by helicopter. ", Historical encounters: Kenneth Scott and the 750-pound grizzly. | A doctor on the scene who happened to be staying at the chalet that evening said the puncture wounds to her throat and lungs were fatal. It was August of 1967, nearly 50 years ago, when the two 19-year-old girls were killed during the night in the first fatal grizzly maulings in Glacier National Park. He was employed by the park as a wildlife biologist. Ex-lawman Jim Cole retires to Wyoming to farm his land, but a land-greedy neighbor, an ex-con turned bounty hunter, and a vicious grizzly bear upset his retirement plans. "This most recent (mauling in the summer of 2016), the person riding their bicycle around a corner and hitting a bear, he wasn't horribly mauled — he was killed, but he wasn't chewed up or anything else," Gildart said.
Directed by Joseph Pevney.
Those days following the attacks were difficult for Shea, who had an immense respect for bears despite everything that had happened. It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. That evening he was out late escorting trucks through burn areas. Again, that's just common sense, but for many, many years it isn't the way it was working.
It wasn't a big bear at all. Shea was eventually named Glacier's first-ever bear management ranger. We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests. There was a great effort to clean up the backcountry, especially the most popular areas that became riddled with trash. It was about 20 years old, an emaciated sow. He wasn't fueled by the frustration and anger that had Gildart happily taking up arms. "I didn't have a very positive feeling at that time for bears," Gildart said. She laid as still as possible.
Helgeson was from Albert Lea, Minn., and came to Glacier for the summer to work in the laundry at the East Glacier Park Lodge. See our, Read a limited number of articles each month, You consent to the use of cookies and tracking by us and third parties to provide you with personalized ads, Unlimited access to washingtonpost.com on any device, Unlimited access to all Washington Post apps, No on-site advertising or third-party ad tracking. First, it pounced onto Helgeson. Be the first to contribute!
To this day, the terrible coincidence can't be fully explained. His stories about that night 50 years ago always come back to the good that came of it. You also agree to our Terms of Service. A forensic expert was flown to Trout Lake to inspect the sow and determine if Gildart had shot the bear responsible for Koons' death. On Saturday, Aug. 12, she set out with Paul Dunn, Ray Noseck, Ron Noseck, Denise Huckle and Koons' dog, Squirt, to Trout Lake. "She wasn't as badly torn up as the one at the lake. They saw five grizzlies, including a sow with two cubs feeding on garbage. "Looking back, hindsight is 20/20, something should have been done. ", Follow Tribune Outdoors reporter Sarah Dettmer on Twitter @GFTrib_SDettmer. Finally, the park established a free backcountry permit system to limit the number of people in the backcountry, concentrate use and keep track of who was in the more secluded areas of the park. The Night of the Grizzly is a 1966 western–adventure film starring Clint Walker, Martha Hyer, Keenan Wynn, Jack Elam and Nancy Kulp.
Shea worked in Glacier for a total of 36 years and now leads hikes through the Old Trail Museum in Choteau and teaches adult field courses through the Glacier Institute.
Gildart continued to work at the park for seven more summers after the Night of the Grizzlies.
By clicking “I agree” below, you consent to the use by us and our third-party partners of cookies and data gathered from your use of our platforms. A bear was seen feeding on the refuse.
Even Gildart took a few years to come to terms with what had happened and realize the bears weren't as at fault as he once believed.
Gildart yelled back to Landa and said to get the rifles. When the chief ranger and I flew back in there a few weeks later, we picked up an immense number, probably 17, burlap sacks we loaded into a Huey helicopter and it was all full of garbage that people had left behind.".
At night, they settled into their sleeping bags under the stars and went to sleep. It was Pevney's final film.
Bike collision with grizzly cause of fatal encounter. Directed by Joseph Pevney and written by Warren Douglas, the film was released by Paramount Pictures on April 20, 1966.
"There was all this garbage there, for one thing. "I was basically told by the folks in Washington D.C. to kill any bears I saw coming in for the garbage," Shea said. Bears aren't something to be afraid of, but they are something to be respected, especially as more and more visitors pour into their domain.
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