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<st1:State w:st="on"></ST1</st1:State><st1:State w:st="on">Colorado</st1:State> Woman's Body Found; Bear Attack Suspected<O
8/11/2009
A 73-year-old <ST1<st1:City w:st="on">Ouray County</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Colo.</st1:State></ST1woman was found dead near her home last Friday. Officers suspect the woman was killed by bears.
“We haven’t confirmed the cause of death yet, but this woman was found this afternoon around noon and it appeared that she had been mauled by a bear,” Joe Lewandowski, a spokesman for the Division of Wildlife, said'
During the investigation, an Ouray County Sheriff’s Department deputy was nearly attacked by a bear. The deputy shot the bear six times.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services has been notified and plans to bait bears onto the property with the intention of killing them, Lewandowski said.
Lewandowski said the woman’s neighbors frequently saw her feeding bears on her property. Feeding bears can cause the animal to lose its fear of humans.
“With this sort of habitation we don’t have any choice [than to kill the bears], and that is what is really sad. There have been as many as 14 bears that have been observed at the house,” he said.
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<st1:State w:st="on"></ST1</st1:State><st1:State w:st="on">Colorado</st1:State> Woman's Body Found; Bear Attack Suspected<O
8/11/2009
A 73-year-old <ST1<st1:City w:st="on">Ouray County</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Colo.</st1:State></ST1woman was found dead near her home last Friday. Officers suspect the woman was killed by bears.
“We haven’t confirmed the cause of death yet, but this woman was found this afternoon around noon and it appeared that she had been mauled by a bear,” Joe Lewandowski, a spokesman for the Division of Wildlife, said'
During the investigation, an Ouray County Sheriff’s Department deputy was nearly attacked by a bear. The deputy shot the bear six times.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services has been notified and plans to bait bears onto the property with the intention of killing them, Lewandowski said.
Lewandowski said the woman’s neighbors frequently saw her feeding bears on her property. Feeding bears can cause the animal to lose its fear of humans.
“With this sort of habitation we don’t have any choice [than to kill the bears], and that is what is really sad. There have been as many as 14 bears that have been observed at the house,” he said.