By: Elliott Chu

Authorities are trying their hardest to find the grizzly Bear that killed a woman in July just outside Yellowstone National Park. Because of this attack, Yellowstone National Park changed their rules that protect grizzly bears , so there are fewer bears in the park. The recent data on grizzly bears show that there are 965 bears around the park. That is more than quadruple the number that existed back in 1975.

Despite their fearsome reputation, grizzly bears are more likely to avoid people than attack them. Since 2010, there were only 10 grizzly kills. “When you think of that, and you combine that with a population of almost a thousand grizzly bears, it is actually remarkable that there are so few serious incidents,” said Frank van Manen, who leads the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team.

Hannibal Anderson, who lives 30 miles away from where the incident happened, found out that one of his calves got killed by a grizzly bear. Because of that, Anderson’s family changed their way of raising cows, by raising older and bigger cows grouped together.

Now that grizzly bears are not as explicitly protected, they likely will have fewer deadly encounters with humans.