Authorities search for bear who killed runner near Yellowstone National Park
Authorities search for bear who killed runner near Yellowstone National Park
The victim was identified as 48-year-old Amie Adamson of Derby, Kansas, a hiker, runner, author, and former teacher.
Authorities on Monday were searching for a grizzly bear that killed a woman, an attack that prompted the closure of a popular trail near Yellowstone National Park.
The victim's body was found on the Buttermilk Trail, near the Town of West Yellowstone, Montana, about 8 a.m. Saturday, the state's Fish, Wildlife and Parks department said in a statement.
The sheriff and coroner of Gallatin County, Dan Springer, said the woman has been identified as Amie Adamson, 48, of Derby, Kansas. She’s might have been running or hiking at the time, he said by email.
Adamson wrote a 2020 e-book, "Walking Out: One Teacher's Reflections on Walking Out of the Classroom to Walk America," about leaving her work as a public schools English teacher in 2015 and backpacking from Delaware to Kansas.
A summary prepared by Chief Deputy Coroner Beker Cuelho said she died from blood loss as a result of a bear mauling. "The bear attack did not appear to be predatory," it said.
The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks said in a statement Monday that its wardens and bear specialists determined the woman's injuries were consistent with a bear attack.
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