The Historic Grizzly

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But they hadn't. And no area of the Southwest was more rife with grizzly bear rumors than the rugged San Juan Mountains in Southern Colorado. Those rumors became reality in September 1951. A federal trapper named Ernie Wilkinson was using poison to kill coyotes in the southern San Juan Mountains near Pagosa Springs after local sheep herders complained of predator problems. One morning when Wilkinson checked his set-guns he was stunned to find a young male grizzly lying dead a short distance from one of his getters.
Then it was learned that another small grizzly had been killed by a sheepherder 80 miles to the south. And in September of 1952, a third grizzly, this one a sow with two cubs, was killed following complaints that she has been killing sheep. This was the last official grizzly bear killed in the state of Colorado. Reply