A federal judge awards $1.9M to family of a boy killed by a black bear in Utah in 2007. The Forest Service was deemed to be at 65% at fault for the tragedy. The family and the boy were also ruled partially at fault for the attack because they had failed to remove trash and food wrappers from the boy's tent.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah federal judge on Tuesday awarded nearly $2 million to the family of an 11-year-old boy killed by a bear at a campsite in 2007. The family of Samuel Ives sued the U.S. Forest Service for failing to close the American Fork Canyon campsite in the mountains about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City after the bear attacked another camper...
AP: Judge awards $1.9M to family of boy killed by bear
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This was on Forest Service land, not National Park Service land. I imagine that makes a big difference. The two services have different directives and policies.
Come to think of it, it wasn't in Yosemite, which means the bear patrol and education program at Yosemite wasn't in place. Even within NPS units, Yosemite has an exceptional bear staff. They have a budget for education and bear patrols. Few if any other NPS or FS units do.
Here's a pretty good article:
http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=5541
Tahoe is interesting. Most of the land is Forest Service, but most of the people are on private land. It's a variety of different government and private agencies that deal with bears. The bears certainly have no respect for jurisdictional lines.
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