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11-12-2015, 03:24 PM( This post was last modified: 11-12-2015, 03:25 PM by brotherbear )
From the lost files of AVA... BigBonns.... Apol and Bold.
Just had this email back from Chris Servheen.
Yes Steve the tragic Grizzly was killed by a truck near Lincoln in Montana and weighed at 830lb with a set of Marlin and Shark scales.
The paws were almost 9 inches across and he had 5 inch claws. He is about as big as they get around here and bold enough to take the highway in broad daylight. He had lifted a Bull Elk carcass out of a pick up and made off with it into the Lincoln hills a week before. He had also been shot and hit by a car in the past but was in otherwise fine condition.
Yes an 843lb Grizzly was relocated to Denali in 2008. He had become an habitual nuisance bear but it was decided to relocate rather than shoot him.
We hope to see more like him but prefer they stay away from the highway.