{"id":360523,"date":"2025-11-06T20:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360523\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:07:12","slug":"hunters-unharmed-after-grizzly-bear-encounter-near-seeley-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360523\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunters unharmed after grizzly bear encounter near Seeley Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEELEY LAKE, Mont. \u2014 Two hunters escaped unharmed after a tense encounter with three grizzly bears on the Pyramid Pass Trail near Seeley Lake on the morning of Nov. 5. <\/p>\n<p>The hunters, who had earlier harvested a mule deer buck, were hiking back to retrieve the deer when they spotted the bears about 100 yards away. <\/p>\n<p>Despite their attempts to deter the bears by yelling and waving their arms, the animals continued to charge. <\/p>\n<p>One hunter fired shots, possibly killing two of the bears, while the third retreated towards the deer carcass. <\/p>\n<p>The hunters promptly reported the incident as self-defense to Montana Fish, Wildlife &amp; Parks.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Forest Service has posted warnings at the trailhead to alert visitors of the recent bear activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEELEY LAKE, Mont. \u2014 Two hunters escaped unharmed after a tense encounter with three grizzly bears on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":360524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-360523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115504561727128146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}