May 10
Adult male grizzly was shot May 7 near the Cave Falls Road-
Idaho spring black bear season began April 15, and the first Greater Yellowstone grizzly death of the season has been logged.
An eleven-year old male griz was shot by someone (so far unidentified) just off the Cave Falls Road near the southwest
corner of Yellowstone Park. In a news release, Idaho Fish and Game said they were investigating and promised any information gathered would be released.
The location of the illegal killing is generally flat with meadows where bears come to dig early season roots, bulbs, and rodents.
It is often hard to distinguish grizzlies from black bears, especially early in the year when they are thin from hibernation. Critics wonder why an area so rich with grizzlies is open to spring black bear hunting.
In recent years, U.S. Forest Service road closures after the completion of timber harvest has made the general area safer for grizzlies. The Cave Falls road (gravel) runs close to the southwest corner of the Park, dead-ending inside the Park at Cave Falls.
The death of a male grizzly is generally not regarded as serious
as that of a fertile female, especially one with cubs.
Photo Copyright Jim Robertson
Exposing the Big Game 
Shouldn’t be out there killing bears or any animals in the first place ……
Exactly right.
Thanks for saying it, “justnicephotos.” Only an insane species commits such atrocities. There is excuse for this behavior, but it is rampant in our society. I am amazed that there is anything in nature still left, considering how ubiquitous and violent Homo sapiens is. When a human kills another human they call it murder. But when humans kill non-humans, it is “sport” or “management.” Totally insane.
There is just no excuse for this and for the lax Fish & Game regulations that allow bear hunting at all, and secondly, that allow bear hunting when there are babies and lactating females. Thanks, Idaho, for your heartless and pathological fixation on killing. Thanks also to Fish & Game for looking the other way when crimes are committed (business as usual, since Fish & Game personnel are themselves avid recreational killers), for recruiting and encouraging kids to learn the love of killing, and for promoting and maintaining the old boys network ad nauseum.