"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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"John Keeney" wrote in message
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"Peter Stickney" wrote in message
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I haven't heard any credible stories of Black Bear attacks either.
They're pretty willing to just go about their business and amble
along. I think that the Bears (and us) face more danger from the
Charging Buick than anything else.

I believe a back country camper was killed in the Rocky Mountain
National Park last summer just before I was out there. Drug out
of his tent at night.

Actually, from what I have read the case in Colorado did not involve a
camper; instead, it was apparently a logger/timberman who had a
backcountry
cabin, from which he was drug, killed, and partially consumed. There was
also a similar case in New Mexico, where the victim was a 90 year old
woman,
again in her cabin. Black bears are not necessarilly cuddly creatures.

OK, I just did a search for the story and it seems it wasn't a fatal attack.
Two people in separate tents were attacked but no fatalities.
I thought for a while there must have been another incident because
the area of the park they were attacked in didn't match the area I recalled
(Fern Lake Trail for the attack vs Wild Basin from memory), but it
seems the Wild Basin is where they finally killed the bear.