The Historic Grizzly

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In many areas strychnine was used in response to particular acts of predation, especially if the source of the problem was not quickly or easily eliminated. President Teddy Roosevelt recorded one such incident that occurred in 1888 near his ranch in Medora, South Dakota. A large grizzly bear, well known to locals by its tracks, was holed up in dense brushy bottom land along the Little Missouri River. The bear had acquired a taste for beef after feeding on a dead cow it found along the river. 
Roosevelt went along on a few hunts for the bear and mentioned that the bruin had taken to lying in wait along cattle trails and killing the first cow passing by, regardless of its size. Some of the ranchers, angered by their losses, hunted the bear extensively but were unsuccessful due to the dense tangles of willow along the river. Finally, a rancher sprinkled strychnine on a freshly killed cow carcass and killed the bear. Reply