Tag Archives: bear spray

Rangers have determined a female grizzly with at least one cub or yearling was responsible for yesterday’s Yellowstone bear attack, but no further action will be taken.

This is why you carry bear spray when hiking: A Yellowstone bear attack could have been much worse had a family not purchased and used bear spray to mitigate injuries to a 10-year-old boy.

A couple hiking in Yellowstone National Park this weekend averted tragedy by employing bear spray on a charging grizzly.

The first time you deploy a canister of bear spray shouldn’t be the first time you actually need it.

Yellowstone’s sole bear spray rental kiosk opened yesterday in the Canyon Village Visitor Center.

Yellowstone National Park has unveiled a new awareness campaign for park visitors of all stripes: “A Bear Doesn’t Care.”

It may not quite be spring yet, but for at least one Yellowstone grizzly bear, winter is over.

We've all been there: Hiking in Yellowstone National Park and armed with a trusty can of bear spray -- only to see the investment wasted when hitting the airport and realizing it's a banned item on the airplane. Park officials want to change that with a new recycling program.

A man well-aware of the risks of hiking in an area inhabited by grizzly bears was mauled and killed by one Thursday near the Yellowstone National Park East Entrance -- hours after U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service workers had outfitted the bear with a radio collar.