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Title: Black bears kill 2 in Alaska, including teen in extreme race
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URL Source: http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mor ... Vpo?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
Published: Jun 19, 2017
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2017-06-20 06:45:17 by BTP Holdings
Keywords: None
Views: 1134
Comments: 8

Black bears kill 2 in Alaska, including teen in extreme race

Associated Press

18 hrs ago

© Rachel D'Oro/AP Photo A neighborhood in the Anchorage, Alaska, suburb of Eagle River can be seen Wednesday, June 17, 2015, from the end of a trail at Arctic Valley, nestled in the Chugach State Park.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Patrick Cooper had already turned around after reaching the halfway point in a popular mountain race in Alaska when he somehow veered off the trail and became lost. That's when the 16-year-old Anchorage boy encountered the black bear that would take his life in a rare predatory attack.

Cooper began running, and at one point he reportedly placed a frantic call to his brother, saying he was being chased by a bear Sunday in the Robert Spurr Memorial Hill Climb race south of Anchorage. The brother notified race director Brad Precosky, who alerted race crews to begin searching for Cooper, known as Jack.

It took a couple hours for responders to locate the teen, whose body was found about a mile up the path, at about 1,500 vertical feet (457 vertical meters). The bear was found at the site, guarding the body, Precosky said.

A Chugach State Park ranger shot the 250-pound (113-kilogram) bear in the face, but the animal ran away. Alaska State Troopers said the boy's remains were airlifted from the scene on Sunday.

State park staffers were scouring the area Monday looking for the bear, state Fish and Game spokesman Ken Marsh said. Sunday's attack was believed to have been a rare predatory move, not a defensive action such as when a female bear will protect her cubs, he said.

"It's very unusual," Marsh said of the mauling. "It's sort of like someone being struck by lightning."

Later Monday, a second fatal mauling at the hands of a black bear was reported nearly 300 miles northeast of Anchorage. Officials with an underground gold mine reported a contract employee hired to take geological samples was killed and another injured in a black bear attack.

No names have been released. Alaska State Troopers and federal mine officials are investigating the mauling at Pogo Mine.

Matt Wedeking, division operations manager with Alaska State Parks, said the predatory behavior of the bear in the attack on the teen was not normal. Asked if there were cubs around this black bear, he said, "We don't know. There could have been. But right now I don't have any information about the bear."

The last fatal mauling in the state occurred near Delta Junction in Alaska's interior in 2013, when a man was killed by a male black bear, Marsh said. The last fatal bear attack in the greater Anchorage area was in 1995, when two people were killed in the Turnagain Arm area by a brown bear protecting a moose carcass, he said.

Last week, a juvenile and two young adults sustained minor injuries when a female brown bear with two cubs attacked them. Authorities shot at that bear, but it ran off.

Areas where wilderness races such as Sunday's take place are inherently risky when it comes to bear encounters, Precosky said. Competitors in the Bird Ridge race sign a liability waiver as part of the registration process.

But competitors often train alone in such areas and are fully aware of the dangers. Races actually can be said to cut down on the risk of a bear encounter because so many people are there, making noise and making their presence known, Precosky said. "There's no safer time to be on a mountain than on a race," he said.

Earlier reports say Cooper texted his mother that he was being chased by the bear, but Precosky said he could not confirm that.


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This is very unusual, Black Bears are usually just as afraid of us as we are of them.

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#4. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

This is very unusual, Black Bears are usually just as afraid of us as we are of them.

Some consider the black bear more dangerous than the grizzly.

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#6. To: Ada (#4)

Some consider the black bear more dangerous than the grizzly.

They would be people who have never seen a grizzly and know nothing about them.

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#7. To: sneakypete (#6)

They would be people who have never seen a grizzly and know nothing about them.

Most people have never seen a grizzly outside of a zoo. Lone predatory black bears responsible for most human attacks Black bears, though, are all over the place.

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