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Press Release

Reward for information: Grizzly bear found dead in Park County, Wyoming

Jul 18, 2025
Media Contacts
Tina Shaw

We at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, along with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, are seeking your help in solving a grizzly bear mortality. The animal was found dead along Deep Lake Trail in Park County, Wyoming on May 30, 2025, with an apparent fatal gunshot wound.

We are offering a monetary reward for information that leads to the arrest, and or, charges being filed against a responsible party. Payment of rewards is the discretion of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and is linked to specific federal wildlife laws. The amount of any reward we may pay is commensurate with the information or assistance received. Many of our law enforcement investigations are solved because people who see unlawful activities reach out to us or their local game warden. In tandem to this community effort, we established the use of financial rewards to people who provide critical information. This program allows us to thank everyday people who help us investigate and stop these crimes, all while protecting their anonymity in the process.

If you have any information regarding the death of this bear, or any other wildlife crimes, please call the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Cody, Wyoming at 307-527-7604, or Wyoming Game and Fish Department Cody Regional Office at 307-527-7125. We will apply applicable legal protections to anyone providing information used during the investigation.

Well if the bill to delists the G bear passes.

The feds will be out of a job.

automatically someone just went up there and shot a bear.
no concern for the guy's poor wife/kid laying in a hospital or nuthin.... hang the bastard.

“Gunshot wound” and “along Deep Lake Trail” point to the possibility of a defensive shooting.
They need to give more context in these reports but as with most Federal investigational outreach, it’s more fishing rather than investigating.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
Well if the bill to delists the G bear passes.

The feds will be out of a job.

Not so I lived in Montana from 1969 to 1980. It was legal to hunt grizzlies until 73 or so, I think 25 permits a year were given out. If you shot one wihtout a permit even if in self defense, you were guilty until proven innocent.

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Originally posted by Huvius:
“Gunshot wound” and “along Deep Lake Trail” point to the possibility of a defensive shooting.
They need to give more context in these reports but as with most Federal investigational outreach, it’s more fishing rather than investigating.

makes you wonder if the person was alone knew they hit it but were scared that the old ways of you shot a bear guilty until proven innocent are still the way of the land

or if someone was up there thought they were shooting at the bear to scare it and a ricochet hit the bear.

possibility that it was shot out of opportunity but I figure usually then someone will be chatting at the bar and make the investigation easier

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Originally posted by chuck375:


Not so I lived in Montana from 1969 to 1980. It was legal to hunt grizzlies until 73 or so, I think 25 permits a year were given out. If you shot one wihtout a permit even if in self defense, you were guilty until proven innocent.

I moved to northern Montana in 1975, then to southern Montana in '78.

The whole time that I was in northern Montana and at least a couple of years after I moved south, grizzly tags were OTC and cost residents $25. The season would close each year when the quota of 25 bears killed by any human cause was reached or approached.

In '78 or '79 I packed into the Scapegoat Wilderness near Helena for the early season wilderness elk hunt and had a grizzly tag in my pocket, hoping to find a bear on my elk gut pile.

A year or so following that hunt, Montana had a drawing spring grizzly hunt in the Rocky Mountain Front area west of Great Falls. My taxidermist at that time drew one of those tags and killed a grizzly.

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Originally posted by Huvius:
“Gunshot wound” and “along Deep Lake Trail” point to the possibility of a defensive shooting.
They need to give more context in these reports but as with most Federal investigational outreach, it’s more fishing rather than investigating.

Shoot, Shovel, Shut up is sometimes the best course of action. A sow with 3 cubs just charged at a car in my neighborhood a few days ago, time to bring back a hunt here.