A grizzly bear in Montana pulled a woman from her tent in the middle of the night. She was killed before fellow campers could use bear spray to drive the animal off.
Leah Davis Lokan, 65, of Chico, California, was on a long-distance bicycling trip and had stopped in the western Montana town of Ovando when she was killed early Tuesday, said Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials as they provided more details about the attack.
Surveillance video from a business in town showed the bear about a block from the post office about 15 minutes later, wildlife officials said. The bear will be killed if it is found, said Greg Lemon, a spokesperson for Fish, Wildlife and Parks. “She loved these kind of adventures. A woman in her 60s, and she’s dong this kind of stuff —- she had a passion for life that was out of the ordinary,” Flowers said.
North of Ovando lies an expanse of forests and mountains, including Glacier National Park that stretches to Canada and is home to an estimated 1,000 grizzlies. It’s the largest concentration of the bruins in the contiguous U.S.