List of bear attacks

Name, age, gender 	Date 	Type 	Location 	Description
Erin Johnson, 27, female 	June 19, 2017 	Wild 	Pogo mine, Alaska 	Johnson, a contract employee for Pogo Mine, was killed while collecting soil samples. The bear was shot and killed by mine personnel.
Patrick Cooper, 16, male 	June 18, 2017 	Wild 	Indian, Alaska 	Cooper was chased and mauled by a bear while running in the juniors' division of the Bird Ridge trail's running race. Cooper texted his family after completing the race, to say he was being followed by a bear. Searchers found the runner's remains 500 yards from the trail and shot the bear in the face with a shotgun, which scared the bear and forced him into the woods away from the body.
Daniel Ward O'Connor, 27, male	May 10, 2015 	Wild 	near Mackenzie, British Columbia 	Ward was killed by a bear while he slept near the fire pit at his campsite. His fiancée who slept in a nearby motorhome discovered his body the following morning. The bear was later shot and killed by conservation officers.
Darsh Patel, 22, male 	September 21, 2014	Wild 	near West Milford, New Jersey 	Patel was about to begin hiking with four friends in Apshawa Preserve when they met a man and a woman at the entrance who told them there was a bear nearby and advised them to turn around. They continued on, found the bear, and Patel and another hiker took photos. They turned and began walking away, but the bear followed them. The hikers ran in different directions, and found that Patel was missing when they regrouped. Authorities found Patel's body after searching for two hours. A black bear found in the vicinity was killed, although it is unknown which particular bear was involved in the incident. According to the State Department of Environmental Protection, this was the first fatal bear attack on a human in New Jersey on record.
Lorna Weafer, 36, female 	May 7, 2014 	Wild 	near Fort McMurray, Alberta 	Weafer, a Suncor worker was attacked at the remote North Steepbank oil sands mine site while walking back to work after a trip to the washroom. Efforts by co-workers to scare off the bear were unsuccessful. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police shot and killed the bear upon arrival. A preliminary investigation determined that the attack was predatory.
Robert Weaver, 64, male 	June 6, 2013 	Wild 	George Lake near Delta Junction, Alaska	Weaver was attacked by a black bear while walking back to his cabin on George Lake, according to his wife, who was able to flee inside the cabin and was uninjured. A adult male black bear on the scene was killed by troopers and found to have some of Weaver's remains in his stomach.
Lana Hollingsworth, 61, female	July 25, 2011 	Wild 	Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona 	Hollingsworth was attacked by a black bear while walking her dog at a country club. Nearly a month later and after eleven surgeries, she died from a massive brain hemorrhage, which doctors believe was a result of the attack. The bear was tracked, shot, and killed.
Bernice Adolph, 72, female 	June 2011 	Wild 	near Lillooet, British Columbia 	Adolph's remains were found by police dogs after she was reported missing. She was an elder in the Xaxli'p First Nation. There was evidence that bears fed on Adolph's remains, and tried to enter her house. An autopsy confirmed that she died from a bear attack. Five bears suspected of being involved were killed by conservation officers, and DNA tests confirmed that one of the dead bears killed Adolph.
Brent Kandra, 24, male 	August 19, 2010 	Captive	Columbia Station, Ohio 	Kandra was a bear caretaker on property that kept exotic pets. The bear was out of its cage for feeding. Prior to the attack, the property's owner had his license to exhibit animals revoked, but was still allowed to keep the animals on his property.
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type	Location 	Description
Brad Treat, 38, male 	 	Wild	Halfmoon Lakes area south of Glacier National Park, Montana	Treat and another man were on mountain bikes on U.S. Forest Service land near Halfmoon Lakes. The bear surprised the bikers and knocked Treat off his bike, and subsequently killed him. The second rider escaped uninjured and summoned help. The bear appears to not have been found.Grizzly Bear Kills Mountain Biker Near West Glacier Flathead Beacon http://flatheadbeacon.com/2016/06/29/grizzly-bear-kills-person-near-west-glacier/ Retrieved June 29, 2016
Lance Crosby, 63, male 	 	Wild	Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 	Crosby, an employee at a medical clinic in the park, was reported missing when he did not report for work. A park ranger found his body in a popular off-trail area less than a mile from Elephant Back Loop Trail, an area he was known to frequent. His body was partially consumed and covered. Puncture wounds on his arms indicated he had tried to defend himself. Based on the presence of a sow grizzly and a cub in the area, the sow was deemed responsible for the attack. The sow was captured and euthanized after it was found to be the bear that killed Crosby. There were public appeals to not kill the sow, but the park superintendent decided there was a risk the sow might kill again; based on July 6, 2011 and August 24, 2011 killings in the park, where another sow was present at both those killings.
Ken Novotny, 53, male 	 	Wild	near Norman Wells, Northwest Territories 	While on a hunting trip near Norman Wells, Novotny was charged and struck by a bear. Friends reported Novotny had just killed a moose and was prepping his prize when the bear "came out of nowhere." He died on the scene. Authorities later found and killed the bear responsible for his death.
Rick Cross, 54, male 	 	Wild	Kananaskis Country, Alberta 	Cross, a hunter, was killed by a mother bear when he accidentally got between her and her cubs. Park rangers stated that it appeared that Cross managed to fire his rifle before being overwhelmed. RCMP said it appeared he wandered into the area where the mother and cub were feeding on a dead deer.
Adam Thomas Stewart, 31, male	 	Wild	Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming 	Stewart was conducting research alone in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in northwest Wyoming. After he failed to return, a search found his body. The coroner suspects it was a grizzly bear, but the species hasn't officially been determined.
Richard White, 49, male 	 	Wild	Denali National Park, Alaska 	White was backpacking alone along the Toklat River. After hikers found an abandoned backpack and torn clothing, rangers investigated and found a male grizzly bear sitting on White's remains. The bear was shot and killed by an Alaska State Trooper. A necropsy of the bear and photographs recovered from White's camera confirmed the attack.
The photographs in White's camera showed that he was taking photos of the bear in a span of eight minutes from to . It was the first fatal bear attack recorded in Denali National Park.
Tomas Puerta, 54, male 	 	Wild	Chichagof Island, Alaska 	After passers-by spotted an unattended skiff, they investigated and encountered a grizzly bear sow and two cubs. Alaska State troopers and Sitka Mountain rescue personnel then found evidence of a campsite and fire on the beach. There was evidence of a struggle, and upon following a trail of disturbed vegetation, they found Puerta's body, cached and partially eaten.
John Wallace, 59, male 	 	Wild	Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 	Wallace's remains were found by hikers on the Mary Mountain Trail, northeast of Old Faithful. Wallace was hiking alone. An autopsy showed that Wallace died from a bear attack. According to a report released by Yellowstone rangers, park officials had attempted to give Wallace a lecture about bear safety, but he was not interested, calling himself a "grizzly bear expert".
DNA evidence later determined that the same sow that killed Brian Matayoshi July 6, 2011 was in the vicinity of Wallace's corpse, though it was not proved that this bear killed Wallace. The bear was killed by park officials. Evidence showed that Wallace was attacked after sitting down on a log to eat a snack and the attack was predatory, rather than defensive.
Brian Matayoshi, 57, male 	 	Wild	Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 	Matayoshi and his wife were hiking the Wapiti Lake Trail, and came upon a mother grizzly bear in an open meadow. The couple began to walk away, and the bear charged. After attempting to run away, Matayoshi was fatally bitten and clawed. Matayoshi's wife hid behind a tree, was lifted from the ground by the bear, and dropped. She played dead, and the bear left the area. She was not injured.
An initial investigation by the National Park Service found the bear's actions were defensive against a perceived threat to her cubs. Since the attack was not predatory and the bear had no known violent history towards humans, no immediate action was taken towards the bear, the bear was later euthanized after it was found to be at the site of another fatal attack August 24, 2011. A later investigation determined that the couple running from the bear was a mistake, and the fatal attack was a "one in 3 million occurrence".
Kevin Kammer, 48, male 	 	Wild	Gallatin National Forest, Montana 	Kammer was in his tent at Soda Butte Campground when a mother bear attacked and dragged him away. Two other campers in separate campsites were also attacked: a teenager was bitten in the leg, and a woman was bitten in the arm and leg. The bear was caught in a trap set at the campground using pieces of a culvert and Kammer's tent. Later, the bear was euthanized, and her cubs were sent to ZooMontana. The mother bear's unusual predatory behavior was noted by authorities.
Erwin Frank Evert, 70, male 	 	Wild	Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming 	Evert, a field botanist, was mauled by a grizzly bear while hiking in the Kitty Creek Drainage area of the Shoshone National Forest, just east of Yellowstone National Park. The bear was trapped and tranquilized earlier in the day by a grizzly bear research team. Two days after the attack, the bear was shot and killed from a helicopter by wildlife officials.
Initially it was reported that Evert ignored posted warnings to avoid the area due to the potential danger involved with the bear research. However, the sheriff's deputy who recovered the body and members of Evert's family stated that the warning signs were no longer present. A report released the following month confirmed that the warning signs were removed, though it also asserted that Evert knew there was a bear research study being conducted in the area. Evert's wife filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government, which was dismissed by district court judge Nancy D. Freudenthal.
==2000s==
===Black bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type 	Location 	Description
Kelly Ann Walz, 37, female 	 	Captive	Ross Township, Pennsylvania 	Walz, whose husband had an expired license to keep exotic animals, was attacked while cleaning her pet bear's cage. She tried to distract the bear by throwing dog food to the opposite end of the cage. A neighbor shot and killed the bear.
Donna Munson, 74, female 	 	Wild 	Ouray, Colorado 	Munson had been feeding bears for a decade, and was repeatedly warned by wildlife officials. After a bear was injured in a fight with an older and bigger bear, Munson left food out to help the injured bear. The older bear came back to Munson's property, forced its way past a wire fence, and mauled Munson. Later, wildlife officials killed two bears on Munson's property. One of the bears had a necropsy which revealed evidence that it consumed Munson.
Cecile Lavoie, 70, female 	 	Wild 	Near La Sarre, Quebec 	After Lavoie didn't return to her cabin following a solo fishing outing, her husband went looking for her. He found a bear dragging her body into the woods.
Robin Kochorek, 31, female 	 	Wild 	Panorama Mountain Resort, British Columbia 	Kochorek was reported missing after mountain biking. A black bear was found near her corpse the morning after her disappearance. The bear was shot on sight by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
Samuel Evan Ives, 11, male 	 	Wild 	Uinta National Forest, Utah 	Ives was grabbed from a family tent in American Fork Canyon, and mauled. State wildlife officials killed the bear, which had entered the campsite the night before. Ives' family sued the U.S. Forest Service because there was no warning about the bear's presence. A judge awarded the family $1.95 million. It was the first known fatal black bear attack in Utah.
Elora Petrasek, 6, female 	 	Wild 	Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee 	A bear attacked the family at a waterfall near a campground. Petrasek's mother and brother were also injured. The bear was trapped and killed, and an unrelated bear was mistakenly killed.
Jacqueline Perry, 30, female 	 	Wild 	Missinaibi Lake Provincial Park, Ontario 	Perry was killed in an attack at a remote campsite. Her husband was seriously injured trying to protect her with a Swiss Army knife, and later was given a Star of Courage award from Governor General Michaëlle Jean. Ministry of Natural Resources staff shot and killed the bear near the area where the fatal attack occurred.
Harvey Robinson, 69, male 	 	Wild 	Selkirk, Manitoba 	Robinson was fatally mauled while picking plums north of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Robinson's family were investigating the area with an RCMP officer later that day, and were also attacked. The officer shot and killed the bear.
Merlyn Carter, 71, male 	 	Wild 	270 kilometres southeast of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories	Carter was found dead behind the main cabin of his fishing camp. Carter's son came to the cabin the day after the attack, and shot and killed the bear.
Maurice Malenfant, 77, male 	 	Wild 	Saint-Zénon-du-Lac-Humqui, Quebec 	Malenfant was attacked in his campsite in the Gaspé region of Quebec.
Christopher Bayduza, 31, male 	 	Wild 	near Fort Nelson, British Columbia 	After going for a walk behind a trailer, Bayduza was attacked at a remote oil rigging site in northeastern British Columbia.
Ester Schwimmer, 5 months, female 	 	Wild 	Fallsburg, New York 	A bear knocked Schwimmer from her stroller, which was near the porch of her family's vacation home. The bear carried the infant in its mouth to the woods. Schwimmer died of neck and head injuries.
Adelia Maestras Trujillo, 93, female	 	Wild 	Mora, New Mexico 	A bear broke through a glass pane to gain entry into Trujillo's house and killed her. Trujillo's body was found in her kitchen. The bear was shot from the house.
Kyle Harry, 18, male 	 	Wild 	25 km. east of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories 	Harry was attacked while with a group at a rural campsite east of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
Mary Beth Miller, 24, female 	 	Wild 	near Valcartier, Quebec 	Miller was attacked while on a biathlon training run in a wooded area on a military base. The bear was trapped and killed four days later.
Glenda Ann Bradley, 50, female 	 	Wild 	Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee 	Bradley was attacked and partially consumed by a mother bear and a cub, upstream from Elkmont, Tennessee. It was the first fatal bear attack in a southeastern U.S. National Park. While hovering over Bradley's corpse, the bears were shot and killed by park rangers.
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type 	Location 	Description
Robert Wagner, 48, male 	 	Wild 	near Sundre, Alberta 	Wagner was reported missing after not returning from a hunting trip. His body was found less than from his parked truck. An autopsy revealed that he had been killed by a grizzly bear, which was shot by wildlife officers.
Stephan Miller, 39, male 	 	Captive	Big Bear Lake, California 	A bear trained to perform in movies turned on its handler, fatally biting him in the neck. Prior to the attack, the bear was featured in the movie Semi-Pro. Pepper spray was used to subdue the bear.
Don Peters, 51, male 	 	Wild 	near Sundre, Alberta 	Peters' body was found from his parked truck. He was on a hunting trip. An autopsy confirmed that he died due to a grizzly bear attack. The bear that attacked Peters was captured and killed the following April.
Jean-Francois Pagé, 28, male 	 	Wild 	near Ross River, Yukon 	Pagé was mauled while staking mineral claims. He unknowingly walked right past a bear den containing a sow and two cubs.
Arthur Louie, 60, male 	 	Wild 	near The Bowron River, British Columbia 	A female and two cubs attacked Louie on a remote forestry road. He was walking back to his gold mining camp after his car broke down.
Rich Huffman, 61, male Kathy Huffman, 58, female 	 	Wild 	Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska 	The Huffmans were attacked while in their tent at a campsite along the Hulahula River upriver from Kaktovik. Two days later the campsite was discovered by three rafters while the bear was still nearby. The bear chased the rafters down the river for over half a mile until it finally gave up. Later, a North Slope Borough Police officer investigating the scene shot and killed the bear at the campsite.
Isabelle Dube, 35, female 	 	Wild 	Canmore, Alberta 	Dube was killed while jogging with two friends on the Bench Trail. After an initial attack, Dube climbed a tree while her friends sought help. The bear brought Dube down from the tree and mauled her.
Fish and wildlife officers shot and killed the bear. At the time of the attack, the trail was closed, and the public was told to avoid it. A few days beforehand, the bear had been relocated from Canmore to Banff National Park.
Timothy Treadwell, 46, male Amie Huguenard, 37, female	 	Wild 	Katmai National Park, Alaska 	Treadwell and Huguenard's corpses were found by their pilot at Kaflia Bay. Treadwell was famous for his books and documentaries on living with wild bears in Alaska. State Troopers investigating the incident recovered an audiotape of the attack. The two were killed on the last night before their scheduled pickup after spending several months in the Alaskan bush. The attack is chronicled in the 2005 American documentary film Grizzly Man by German director Werner Herzog.
Timothy Hilston, 50, male 	 	Wild 	Blackfoot-Clearwater Wildlife Management Area, Montana	Hilston was attacked as he field dressed an elk in Western Montana. A female bear and her cubs suspected in the attack were killed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials. Hilston's widow sued federal and state agencies for negligence, and the lawsuits were dismissed by District Court judge Donald W. Molloy.
George Tullos, 41, male 	 	Wild 	Hyder, Alaska 	Tullos' partially consumed body was found at a campground near the Canada–US border in Southeast Alaska. The bear was shot and killed.
==1990s==
===Black bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type	Location 	Description
Raymond Kitchen, 56, male Patti McConnell, 37, female 	 	Wild	Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park, British Columbia	McConnell died from injuries while defending herself and her son from a black bear attack on a boardwalk to the hot springs. Kitchen heard the attack in progress, and was killed while attempting to rescue. McConnell's son and a 20-year-old man were also injured. The bear was shot while standing over the victims.
McConnell's son received a Star of Courage for his attempt to save his mother. Kitchen also received the honor, posthumously.
Sevend Satre, 53, male 	 	Wild	near Tatlayoko Lake, British Columbia 	Satre was killed while checking fence lines near the central British Columbia community of Tatlayoko Lake, British Columbia.
Ian Dunbar, 4, male 	 	Wild	70 Mile House, British Columbia 	Dunbar was attacked in the back yard of his home. The bear was later killed by conservation officers.
Colin McClelland, 24, male 	 	Wild	Fremont County, Colorado 	A bear tore open the door to McClelland's trailer and attacked him at Waugh Mountain, Colorado. The bear was later killed by game wardens.
Darcy Staver, 33, female 	 	Wild	Glennallen, Alaska 	The bear entered her cabin and Staver and her husband fled to the roof. While Staver's husband went for help, the bear killed her. The bear was shot and killed by a neighbor.
Sebastien Lauzier, 20, male 	 	Wild	near Cochrane, Ontario 	Lauzier was attacked while taking soil samples. The bear charged at Sebastien Lauzier, 20, of Timmins, as he and a partner from a mineral exploration company were working Sunday. Lauzier's partner, Rod Barber, also of Timmins, was able to drive off the bear with a pole and was not hurt, Sgt. Mike Jordan said. The incident occurred about 57 miles northeast of Cochrane, just west of the Quebec border.
Raymond Jakubauskas, 32, male Carola Frehe, 48, female	 	Wild	Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario 	While they were setting up camp on Bates Island, a black bear broke both of their necks. The bear then dragged their bodies into the woods and consumed the remains. When police arrived five days later, the bear was guarding the bodies. A park naturalist called the attack "right off the scale of normal bear behavior".
James Waddell, 12, male 	 	Wild	Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta 	In the Marten River Campground, Waddel was dragged from a tent during the night and killed.
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type	Location 	Description
Ned Rasmussen, 53, male 	 	Wild	Uganik Island, Alaska 	After Rasmussen disappeared on a deer hunting trip, he was found dead.
Ken Cates, 53, male 	 	Wild	Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska 	Cates was killed while hiking near Soldotna, Alaska in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Troopers found Cates' rifle, spent shell casings, and blood nearby which suggested that Cates may have shot the bear.
George Evanoff, 65, male 	 	Wild	near Prince George, British Columbia 	Evanoff was hiking on the Bearpaw Ridge, northeast of Prince George, British Columbia. He encountered a grizzly feeding on a moose kill about a half-mile from his cabin. He was bitten on the neck, but his body was not mauled or eaten by the bear.
Christopher Kress, 40, male 	 	Wild	near Beaver Mines, Alberta 	Kress was killed by a grizzly bear while fishing on the South Castle River, near the Beaver Mines campground in Alberta.
Craig Dahl, 26, male 	 	Wild	Glacier National Park (U.S.), Montana 	Dahl's partially consumed remains were found three days after he set off to hike alone in the Two Medicine area of Glacier National Park. He was attacked by a mother and her two cubs.
Audelio Luis Cortes, 40, male 	 	Wild	near Kenai, Alaska 	Cortes was killed immediately after being bitten in the head while laying seismic line in the Swanson River area. His crew walked past the bear's den.
Robert Bell, 33, male 	 	Wild	Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska	Bell was killed while hiking with a friend near the Kugrak river. They startled a mother bear feeding on salmon.
Christine Courtney, 32, female 	 	Wild	Kluane National Park, Yukon 	Courtney was killed while hiking on the Slim's Valley trail in Kluane National Park. Her husband was also attacked but survived. Park wardens killed the bear.
Shane Fumerton, 32, maleBill Caspell, 40, male 	 	Wild	near Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia	Fumerton and Caspell were killed while securing an elk in the vicinity of Mount Soderhome, in the Southern Rocky Mountain Trench in southeastern British Columbia.
Marcie Trent, 77, female Larry Waldron, 45, male	 	Wild	near Anchorage, Alaska 	Trent and her son Waldron were killed by a bear defending a moose carcass while they were hiking on the McHugh Creek Trail in Chugach State Park, near Anchorage, Alaska.
John Petranyi, 40, male 	 	Wild	Glacier National Park (U.S.), Montana 	Petranyi was killed by a mother with two cubs on the Loop Trail, near the Granite Park Chalet.
Trevor Percy-Lancaster, 40, male 	 	Wild	Jasper National Park, Alberta 	Percy-Lancaster and his wife were setting up camp in an isolated area of the Tonquin Valley. They surprised a bear, and began running away. The bear initially caught Percy-Lancaster's wife, and then he distracted the bear, which turned on him.
Anton Bear, 6, male 	 	Wild	near King Cove, Alaska 	The six-year-old, his mother, and sister were walking down a road when they were approached by a grizzly that had just been feeding at the town dump. The family fled, but the boy was chased down by the bear and killed. The bear devoured most of the victim before villagers could kill the animal.
===Polar bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type	Location 	Description
Hattie Amitnak, 64, female	 	Wild	near Rankin Inlet, Nunavut	Amitnak was mauled after trying to distract a bear that attacked and injured two other people at a Hudson Bay camp. She was later awarded a posthumous medal of bravery by then-Governor-General of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson.
Carl Stalker, 28, male 	 	Wild	Point Lay, Alaska 	While Stalker was walking with his girlfriend, he was chased and consumed in the middle of the town. The bear was shot and killed near Stalker's corpse.
==1980s==
===Black bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type	Location 	Description
Gordon Ray, 24, male 	 	Wild	near Fort Nelson, British Columbia 	Ray was killed while on a tree planting project approximately south of Fort Nelson. He climbed a tree to avoid the bear, but fell, and was attacked. The bear was later shot by a helicopter pilot.
Daniel Anderson, 12, male 	 	Wild	La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve, Quebec 	Anderson was grabbed from his tent while camping. His body was found from the tent.
Melvin Rudd, 55, male 	 	Wild	near Nipawin Provincial Park, Saskatchewan 	Rudd was killed while fishing in central Saskatchewan.
Clifford David Starblanket, 26, male 	 	Wild	near Canwood, Saskatchewan 	Starblanket, a trapper living in the forest, suffered an attack to his throat and head.
Lee Randal Morris, 44, male Carol Marshall, 24, female	 	Wild	near Zama City, Alberta 	Morris and Marshall were killed by the same bear in separate attacks over a span of two hours. They were working at a remote oil drilling camp.
Allan Russell Baines, 10, male 	 	Wild	Leo Creek, British Columbia, near Granisle, British Columbia	Baines was killed on a fishing trip with two friends.
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type	Location 	Description
Harley Seivenpiper, 40, male 	 	Wild	Port Alexander, Alaska 	Seivenpiper was killed while hunting alone. The bear dragged Seivenpiper's body almost uphill to a cache. When searchers approached the cache, the bear charged, and was shot and killed.
Gary Goeden, 29, male 	 	Wild	Glacier National Park (U.S.)	Goeden's partially consumed remains were found at Natahki Lake, Many Glacier Valley, Glacier National Park. He was on a solo hike, and off-trail.
Charles Gibbs, 40, male 	 	Wild	Glacier National Park (U.S.)	Gibbs was last seen alive following and photographing a bear with cubs at Elk Mountain in Glacier National Park. Investigators recovered film of the female approaching in attack mode at .
William Tesinsky, 38, male 	 	Wild	Yellowstone National Park 	Tesinkey, a photographer, was mauled after approaching a bear in the Otter Creek area of Hayden Valley, Yellowstone National Park. The bear was killed.
Brigitta Fredenhagen, 25, female 	 	Wild	Yellowstone National Park 	Fredenhagen was dragged from her tent during the night and killed at a backcountry campsite at the southern end of White Lake in Yellowstone National Park.
Roger May, 23, male 	 	Wild	Gallatin National Forest 	May was dragged from his tent, and eaten at the Rainbow Point campground, northwest of Yellowstone National Park. The bear was captured and killed with an injection of poison.
Laurence Gordon, 33, male 	 	Wild	Glacier National Park (U.S.)	Gordon was killed at the Elizabeth Lake campsite in the Belly River Valley, Glacier National Park.
Ernest Cohoe, 38, male 	 	Wild	near Banff, Alberta 	While fishing with a friend just north of Banff, Alberta, a bear charged and bit off part of Cohoe's face. He died a week later as a result of the injuries.
Jane Ammerman, 19, female Kim Eberly, 19, male	 	Wild	Glacier National Park (U.S.)	Their partially consumed bodies were found near their campsite at Divide Creek in the St. Mary Valley. The bear was later killed by Native American hunters.
===Polar bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type 	Location 	Description
Juan Perez, 11, male 	 	Captive	Brooklyn, New York 	Perez was killed by two bears after climbing a fence in Prospect Park Zoo, Brooklyn, New York. The bears were killed by police officers.
Thomas Mutanen, 46, male	 	Wild 	Churchill, Manitoba	Mutanen was attacked and dragged on a street in Churchill. The bear was part of an annual migration to Hudson Bay. Due to a lack of ice on the bay, the bear wandered into the town.
Conrado Mones, 29, male 	 	Captive	New York City 	Mones was mauled after climbing three fences in New York City's Central Park Zoo to enter the bear's pen.
==1970s==
===Black bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type 	Location 	Description
Lynn Orser, 30, female 	 	Captive	Aurora, Ontario 	A bear trained to wrestle humans entered its owner's home and attacked the owner's friend, Orser, in her bedroom.
Alison Muser, 5, female 	 	Wild 	Waterton Lakes National Park 	Muser was mauled when playing with her sister in Cameron Creek in Waterton Lakes National Park. She died en route to a Calgary hospital. The bear responsible for the attack was killed.
George Halfkenny, 16 Mark Halfkenny, 12 Billy Rhindress, 15 (all male)	 	Wild 	Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario	The three boys were stalked and killed while fishing near Radiant Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park. This was the first fatal bear attack in the park in eighty years.
Mary Ann Johns, 1 	 	Captive	Stewardson, Illinois 	While carnival workers were setting up, a bear was taken out of its cage and chained to a tree. Johns, whose parents were carnival workers, walked by and was attacked. The bear had previously attacked children.
Victoria Valdez, 4, female 	 	Wild 	Glenwood, Washington 	Valdez was mauled while playing near her home. Her body was found from her home. Her father shot and killed a bear before finding his daughter's body.
John Richardson, 31, male 	 	Wild 	near Rocky Mountain National Park 	Richardson was attacked while camping on private property, just west of Rocky Mountain National Park, and north of Grand Lake. The bear was later killed by a professional hunter. This was the first fatal black bear attack in Colorado in modern times.
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date 	Type	Location 	Description
Monty Adams, 32, male 	 	Wild	Southern Alberta 	While hunting alone for sheep west of Pincher Creek in Southern Alberta, Adams was mauled by a grizzly bear. Adams was found by two other hunters, and died when rescuers were removing him from the area.
Mary Pat Mahoney, 22, female	 	Wild	Glacier National Park (U.S.) 	Mahoney was dragged from a tent and killed at Many Glacier campground. Rangers killed two grizzly bears in the area a few hours after the attack.
Alan Precup, 25, male 	September 11, 12, or 13, 1976; exact date unknown	Wild	Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska	Precup did not return after backpacking in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Days later, searchers found his campsite with his bare skeleton, one intact hand, and both feet still booted.
Barbara Chapman, 24, female 	 	Wild	Glacier National Park (Canada) 	While hiking with a friend in British Columbia's Glacier National Park, Chapman rounded a bend to find a grizzly bear charging. The bear first attacked Chapman's friend, who initially resisted, but left him alone after he played dead. The bear then attacked Chapman, who fought back and was quickly killed. Chapman's friend sustained serious injuries, but was able to hike out for help. The grizzly bear that attacked and her three cubs were soon found and killed.
Jay Reeves, 38, male 	 	Wild	Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska 	Reeves was camping alone on the Alaskan Peninsula, near Cold Bay. A fisherman discovered a camp that looked like it was damaged by a bear, and found only Reeves' shoes. A helicopter spotted and shot a grizzly bear near the camp. Later, they found Reeves' remains, and an autopsy on the bear revealed human remains.
Wilf Etherington, 51, male 	 	Wild	Banff National Park 	Etherington, a biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Service, and a photographer were helping with the relocation of a troublesome grizzly bear in Banff National Park. The bear had been recently trapped and sedated. When the two men approached the bear, it charged and attacked Etherington.
Harry Walker, 25, male 	 	Wild	Yellowstone National Park 	Walker was attacked by a bear that was feeding on food that was left out at his campsite near Old Faithful Inn.
Harvey Cardinal, 40, male 	 	Wild	near Fort St. John, British Columbia 	Cardinal was attacked and partially eaten while hunting near the Doig River. The bear had a gum infection, and was shot and killed.
===Polar bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type 	Location 	Description
Lafayette Herbert, 43, male	 	Captive	Baltimore, Maryland 	Herbert, who had a history of mental illness, was killed after he climbed into the polar bear enclosure at the Baltimore Zoo.
Richard Pernitzky, 18, male	 	Wild 	Inuvik, Northwest Territories	Pernitzky was mauled at an Imperial Oil exploration site. The bear was later shot and killed.
Richard Hale, 19, male 	 	Captive	Toledo, Ohio 	Hale's body was found at the bottom of the polar bear grotto at the Toledo Zoo. There was evidence that Hale was under the influence of drugs at the time of his attack.
==1960s==
===Black bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type 	Location 	Description
Jack Ottertail, 53, male 	 	Wild 	near Atikokan, Ontario 	Ottertail was killed while on a walk. A bear found near the body was shot and killed.
Susan Duckitt, 11, female 	 	Wild 	near Okanagan Landing, British Columbia	Duckitt and a friend were picnicking by Okanagan Lake. They went on a walk up a hill and encountered the bear standing on its hind feet. The girls ran away, and Duckitt was caught. A man tracked down the bear and killed it with six shots.
Phyllis Tremper, 3, female 	 	Captive	Prescott, Arizona 	A pet bear dragged Tremper into its cage at the Ponderosa Trailer Park in Prescott, Arizona. The bear's owner shot and killed it.
Vernon Sauvola, 51, male 	 	Wild 	Aitkin, Minnesota 	Sauvola was attacked while he was fishing in a stream, and his body was dragged 60 feet.http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=WinonaA&BaseHref=TWN/1965/07/02&PageLabelPrint=1&EntityId=Ar00112&ViewMode=GIF
Sidney Smith, 26, male 	 	Wild 	near Schefferville, Quebec 	Smith, a technician on a radar line, was attacked by a black bear in a remote area. There was evidence that Smith tried to defend himself with a hunting knife.
William Strandberg, 51, male	 	Wild 	near Fairbanks, Alaska 	A bear killed Strandberg approximately west of Fairbanks. Strandberg was a member of a prominent Alaskan mining family.
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Wild 	Location 	Description
Russell Ringer, 49, male 	 	Captive	Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri 	Ringer was crushed by his pet bear, which had no teeth or claws, as he entered its cage for a wrestling match at the military base.
Julie Helgeson, 19, female	 	Wild 	Glacier National Park (U.S.)	While camping near the Granite Park Chalet, Helgeson was dragged from her tent. Her boyfriend was also severely mauled. This incident became widely known as "Night of the Grizzlies" when two young women were separately attacked in Glacier National Park, Montana, by grizzly bears.
Michele Koons, 19, female 	 	Wild 	Glacier National Park (U.S.)	Koons was camping with a group at the Trout Lake campsite. A bear invaded their camp, and while other campers climbed up trees, Koons was caught in her sleeping bag, and attacked. This incident became widely known as "Night of the Grizzlies" when two young women were separately attacked in Glacier National Park, Montana, by grizzly bears.
Although Helgeson and Koons were killed on the same night, these were separate attacks by different bears approximately apart. Both bears were killed two nights after their attacks.
===Polar bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type	Location 	Description
Paulosie Meeko, 19, male	 	Wild	Churchill, Manitoba	Meeko's throat was slashed by a polar bear, and he died less than two hours after the attack. The bear was shot by the police.
==1950s==
===Black bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type 	Location 	Description
Lyndon Hooper, 51, male 	 	Wild 	near Cadomin, Alberta 	Hooper was fishing alone when attacked from Cadomin, Alberta. His mutilated body was found in a stream. Three days later, a forest ranger shot a bear from where Hooper's body was recovered. It was later discovered that the bear's stomach contained human hair.
Barbara Coates, 7, female 	 	Wild 	Jasper National Park 	While Coates was picking berries outside of her family's Sunwapta Falls cottage, a black bear appeared. Coates ran to the cottage, but the bear chased and mauled her.
Andrew Mark Palmer, 3, male	 	Captive	Flagstaff, Arizona 	While Palmer was playing with his grandparents' pet bear, he was mauled. The bear was shot and killed by a neighbor.
Rudolph Gaier, 50, male 	 	Wild 	near Anchorage, Alaska 	Gaier and a black bear were found dead at a remote mountain cabin. An investigator concluded that Gaier shot the bear after it entered his cabin, and before dying, the bear fatally clawed Gaier.
Robert Huckins, 18, male 	 	Captive	Crawford Notch State Park, New Hampshire	After feeding a bear in its cage, Huckins was chased and killed. The bear also injured three other people, and was eventually shot and killed with thirteen gun shots.
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type 	Location 	Description
Sam Adams, 45, male 	 	Wild 	near Ovando, Montana 	Adams was missing after hunting near the Continental Divide northeast of Missoula. His body was found smashed in three parts. Laboratory studies showed evidence that Adams was in a fight with the bear, which was described as "probably a grizzly".
Kenneth Scott, 29, male 	 	Wild 	near Augusta, Montana 	While elk hunting, a hunter in Scott's group was attacked, and the bear was shot and wounded. When they went back to kill the bear, Scott's gun jammed and the bear mauled him. The bear was later killed by another hunter.
Paul Lemery, 28, male 	 	Captive	Libertyville, Illinois	Lemery, an animal trainer, was attacked when taking a bear out of its cage. He was preparing for a television appearance with the bear.
Willies McBride, ?, male	 	Wild 	near Eureka, Alaska 	McBride was mauled while hunting alone. The bear was not found.
==1940s==
===Black bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type 	Location 	Description
Carol Ann Pomeranky, 3, female	 	Wild 	Marquette National Forest, Michigan	Pomeranky was taken by a bear outside of her home on the Marquette National Forest (now the Hiawatha National Forest) in Michigan. She was dragged . The bear was tracked and killed.
Anton Rauch, 59, male 	 	Captive	Chicago, Illinois 	Rauch, a worker at the Lincoln Park Zoo, was attacked while cleaning the bear's cage.http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=WinonaA&BaseHref=TWH/1945/08/02&PageLabelPrint=2&EntityId=Ar00211&ViewMode=GIF
Carl Herrick, 37, male 	 	Wild 	West Townshend, Vermont 	Herrick was hunting in West Townshend, Vermont, and his body was found with a blackened face and scratches. His rifle and bear tracks were nearby. A theory is that Herrick shot the bear and thought it was dead, and was squeezed to death when he approached.
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type 	Location 	Description
Richard Strand, 8, male 	 	Captive	Seattle, Washington 	Strand was attacked while playing with a pet bear. The bear also bit a neighbor who attempted to rescue Strand. The bear was taken to Woodland Park Zoo.
Richard Havemann, 68, male	 	Captive	San Diego, California 	Havemann, an animal trainer, was attacked by a Himalayan brown bear at the San Diego Zoo.
Martha Hansen, 45, female 	 	Wild 	Yellowstone National Park	Hansen left her cabin to go to the restroom. As she rounded a corner, she surprised a bear and was mauled. Hansen was taken to the hospital and died four days later due to injuries sustained during the attack.
Hansen's sister sought, and eventually successfully received compensation for expenses incurred to care for Martha. Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a bill in 1944 granting the family $1894.95.
Thomas Miller, 28, male 	 	Captive	Detroit, Michigan 	Miller, a carnival employee, was struck on his head by a bear from Canada. The attack occurred when Miller took the bear out of its cage to perform tricks for his wife.
==1930s==
===Black bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type 	Location 	Description
George Langley, 55, male, James Virtue, 68, male	 	Captive	Ellsworth, Maine 	Langley owned a gas station where he kept the bear. After entering the bear's cage to feed it, Langley and his helper were attacked. The bear was shot and killed.
Clarence Staley, 54, male 	 	Captive	Mankato, Minnesota 	Staley was mauled by a bear that he had raised from a cub. The caged bear attacked Staley when he tried to retrieve a purse that had been dropped inside the bear's cage.http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=WinonaA&BaseHref=TWH/1934/11/12&PageLabelPrint=1&EntityId=Ar00114&ViewMode=GIF
William Thomas "Bill" Brown Jr, 64, male 	 	Captive	Pecos County, Texas 	Brown was killed while trying to recapture a bear from his roadside zoo. A posse shot and killed the bear.
Grant Taylor, 11, male 	 	Captive	Brookhaven, New York	On his walk home from school, Taylor stopped to feed an apple to a bear tethered in front of an inn. The bear mauled Taylor and crushed him against a wire cage. Motorists stopped and used sticks and stones to try to separate the bear from Taylor.
Eventually, a man operating a nearby roadside stand came and shot and killed the bear. An examination revealed that the bear hadn't eaten in two days. The Inn had two bears that were trapped five years previously in the Adirondacks, and were frequently fed by passers-by. Both bears were killed.
Peter Matthew Ryan, 5, male 	 	Captive	Albion, New York 	Ryan was attacked after trying to get a close look at a pet bear. The bear was tied to a fence at Mount Albion Cemetery after a truck transporting it broke down.
Emerson Joyce, 60, male 	 	Captive	Watertown, New York 	A female black bear who recently had her cubs taken away killed her feeder, Joyce. This occurred at the John C. Thompson Park Zoo.
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Species	Location 	Description
Charles Wyman, 76, male 	 	Captive	Denver, Colorado 	Wyman, a zookeeper, was attacked by two grizzly bears at the Denver Zoo after spraying them with a water hose. It was speculated that the bears were in a foul mood due to warm weather. The bears were shot.
John Macdonald, 70, male	 	Wild 	near Dawson, Yukon	Macdonald's mutilated body was initially found in the wilderness north of Dawson. Macdonald's corpse was moved to a cabin, and before the police arrived, the bear broke into the cabin and scattered the remains. Macdonald was a woodcutter who lived alone in a shack on the Yukon River.
Thomas Earl, 56, male 	 	Captive	Cleveland, Ohio 	Earl, a zookeeper at the Cleveland Brookside Zoo, was mauled by a brown bear when feeding it in its pen. After a vicious struggle, police shot the bear. Earl was also mistakenly shot, but it was determined that he was already dead. Earlier in the day, Earl had been fired from his job.
==1920s==
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date 	Type	Location 	Description
Jack Thayer, ?, male 	October 16, 1929	Wild	Admiralty Island, Alaska 	Thayer, a U.S. Forest Service employee, and Fred Herring, an assistant, encountered a brown bear at close range while conducting a timber survey on southeast Admiralty Island. Thayer shot the bear while Herring retreated to a tree, but the wounded bear mauled Thayer, who died later that evening.
Percy Goodair, 52, male 	 	Wild	Jasper National Park 	Goodair, a Parks Canada warden, was killed by a bear while patrolling the Tonquin Valley.
Joseph B. "Frenchy" Duret, 60, male	 	Wild	Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, Montana	Duret was attacked and partially devoured by a huge grizzly. Duret crawled back towards his ranch and died in Frenchy Meadow on Slough Creek.
==1910s==
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date 	Type	Location 	Description
Frank Welch, 61, male	September 8, 1916	Wild	Yellowstone National Park	Welch was killed at a camp near Sylvan Pass while carrying a load of hay and oats. Men from the camp killed the bear with a dynamite trap.
==1900s==
===Black bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date 	Type 	Location 	Description
Baby Laird, 1, ? 	October 5, 1908 	Captive	Tucson, Arizona 	After a bear escaped from a cage at Elysian Grove Pleasure Park, Buss Laird ran with her infant child in a go-cart. The bear grabbed and killed the baby.
John Dicht, 18, male 	November 24, 1906	Wild 	Elk County, Pennsylvania	Thinking the bear was dead, Dicht began skinning it. The bear immediately awoke and tore off one of Dicht's arms, and then killed him.http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=WinonaA&BaseHref=TWH/1906/11/26&PageLabelPrint=1&EntityId=Ar00105&ViewMode=GIF
Mary Porterfield, 3, female Wilie Porterfield, 5, male Henry Porterfield, 7, male	May 19, 1901 	Wild 	Job, West Virginia 	The children were gathering flowers near their home when they were attacked. A member of a search party found the remains of the children, and shot and killed the bear.
== 1890s ==
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date 	Type	Location 	Description
Phillip Henry Vetter, 37, male	Sept. 2 1892	Wild	Near Greybull River, Wyoming	Vetter, a buffalo hunter, had stated to a fellow hunter a week before, that "he would be going out for some bear." A week later, another hunter seeking shelter from rain, investigated his cabin, which had been ransacked by a grizzly bear, and found Vetter dead in the cabin. A newspaper found, had text written in blood by Vetter before his death, describing his battle with a grizzly bear, and ending with the words "I'm dying." The hunter, and another man, searched for signs of the bear, and found Vetter's hat, two empty rifle shells, and his rifle with a shell jammed in its chamber. Vetter was buried in Old Trail Town, Cody, Wyoming.
==1880s==
===Black bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date 	Type	Location 	Description
John Robinson, ?, male 	1883 	Wild	Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania	Robinson's dead body was found near train tracks. There was evidence of bear tracks and a "terrible struggle".
John Dennison, 82, male	June 1881	Wild	Happy Isle Lake, Ontario 	This was Ontario's first recorded fatal black bear attack. Dennison was inspecting his bear traps on Happy Isle Lake, in what is now Algonquin Park. After discovering a bear caught in the trap a struggle between the two ensued, ending in both their deaths.Algonquin Park Archives, Algonquin Park News Letter, Vol. 9, 4 (October 25, 1940), 1.
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date 	Type	Location 	Description
"Old Ike," ?, male 	June 1886 	Wild	Salmon River (Idaho) 	One of the most successful bear hunters, he killed over 100 grizzlies during the 1800s. In June 1886, he wounded a grizzly bear near the headwaters of the Salmon River, but not enough to cripple the animal. After pursuing it into a dense stand of trees, he was attacked by the bear and mauled, with the bear biting into his chest—crushing his entire chest with one bite. The bear was driven off by his companions.
Richard Wilson, ?, male	July 1885 	Wild	Sedona, Arizona 	A bear hunter, Wilson was hunting grizzly bears and shot one near Oak Creek, Arizona. He followed the bear into a thicket and was attacked. He tried to escape by climbing a tree, but the bear pulled him down and killed him.
Hyrum Naegle, ?, male 	Circa 1885	Wild	Colonia Pacheco, Chihuahua, Mexico	Hyrum and his brother shot and wounded a grizzly bear which they pursued, thinking it would soon expire. While brother George was repairing his gun, Hyrum went to shoot the bear but was mauled and killed when the bear crushed his skull. The bear was shot and killed by George's repaired rifle.
===Unknown===
Name, age, gender 	Date 	Type	Location 	Description
Frank Devereaux, 52, male	September 4, 1883	Wild	Cheboygan, Michigan	Devereaux and the bear's corpses were found in the woods. There were indications that the bear and man fought each other.Franklin Devereaux at find a grave
==1870s==
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date	Type	Location 	Description
William Waddell, ?, male	1875	Wild	Big Basin Redwoods State Park	Waddell, a lumber mill owner, was killed near Waddell Creek in Santa Cruz County, California.
==1860s==
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date 	Type	Location 	Description
Charles Henry Gates, 35, male	August 30, 1863	Wild	Cache County, Utah	Gates was hunting a grizzly bear that escaped from a trap and was mauled. In 2004, the descendants of Gates placed a new headstone at his gravesite. Retrieved March 8, 2014 Retrieved March 10, 2014
==1850s==
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date 	Type	Location 	Description
Andy Sublette, 46, male	December 19, 1854	Wild	Santa Monica, California 	An experienced bear hunter who hunted and killed many bears, Sublette shot and wounded a bear after being separated from his hunting party near present-day Santa Monica in 1854. He was then mauled but stabbed the bear to death with his knife and with the help of his dog. His dog survived, but Sublette died seven days later due to his injuries.
Issac Slover, 81, male 	October 14, 1854 	Wild	Mount San Antonio 	A trapper and hunter who hunted grizzly bears even in his older ages, Slover shot and wounded one on Mount San Antonio near his cabin. The large wounded bear crawled into the brush, and Slover reloaded and followed, where he was attacked, torn to pieces, and died.
Jim Boggs, ?, male 	Circa 1850 	Wild	Russian River, California	While hunting grizzly bears, he blundered into the den of a mother with cubs. He was attacked and killed.
==1830s==
===Brown bear===
Name, age, gender 	Date 	Type	Location 	Description
Peter Lebec, ?, male	October 17, 1837	Wild	Fort Tejon, California	Lebec was out hunting grizzlies. He dispatched one with a well-placed shot and, assuming it to be dead, approached it. However, the bear rallied and lunged, throwing him to the ground and breaking his neck. He was killed instantly, but the bear was later killed by Native American hunters.Busch, Robert H. (2000). The Grizzly Almanac. New York, pg. 111. .
== See also ==
*Bear attacks
*Bear danger
*Binky (polar bear)
*Stephen Herrero
Species:
* List of fatal cougar attacks in North America
* List of fatal alligator attacks in the United States
* Coyote attacks on humans
* List of wolf attacks in North America
* Fatal dog attacks in the United States
==References==
Fatal bear attacks in North America by decade
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