Explain how the changes that were made in Glacier after "the night of the grizzlies" support the National Park Service's founding mission: to protect wild places and the creatures that live there.
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The 50-Year Legacy of Glacier's Night of the Grizzlies
How one tragic evening revolutionized bear management in our national parks
Glacier National Park ranger Leonard Landa with the grizzly bear that killed Michelle Koons in 1967 at Trout Lake.
Ben Goldfarb
Ben Goldfarb
Aug 11, 2017
Shortly after midnight one evening in August 1967, Dave Shea, a 27-year-old biologist stationed in Glacier National Park, leveled his .300 H&H Magnum rifle at a female grizzly as she devoured garbage behind a backcountry guesthouse called the Granite Park Chalet. Six men, including the tall, redheaded Shea, stood poised on the balcony—two to illuminate the sow with flashlights, four to end her life. At the count of three, the executioners fired. Eleven bullets split the cool night, and the bear slumped into a ravine.