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The third bear cub associated with an attack at the Soda Butte Campground Wednesday morning has been trapped, as authorities await the results of DNA analysis to see if a captured female grizzly was the culprit in an attack that left one dead and two injured.

Kevin Kammer came west to fulfill a lifelong dream: fly fishing in Yellowstone National Park. That dream was rudely shattered when he was the victim of a grizzly-bear attack at the Soda Butte Campground just outside Cooke City, an attack that also left two injured.

A mother grizzly bear and one of her two cubs were trapped inside the five culvert traps set at the Soda Butte Campground near Cooke City last night, as officials put together the pieces of why a bear went on a rampage at the remote Soda Butte Campground in Montana, killing a Michigan man and injuring two others.

Bears and humans have always been an uneasy mix, but the attack by a bear -- or multiple bears, perhaps -- on a campground outside the Northeast Entrance of Yellowstone National Park that left one dead and two injured has locals wondering if anything could have been done to prevent the tragedy.

A bear tore into the Soda Butte Campground near Cooke City, off the Northeast Entrance to Yellowstone National Park, killing one and injuries two others early this morning.