Grizzly Bear Cubs Prompt Lockdown At Elementary School

[matcom]

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CHOTEAU, Mont. -- Two grizzly bear cubs wandered into a backyard in this Rocky Mountain Front community -- prompting a bear lockdown at a nearby elementary school.

Chuck Gameon, principal of the Choteau Elementary School, said the bears didn't cause too much of a stir because many of the students are from ranches and, "They see lots of bears." But it did force the school to cancel recess Thursday.

In recent years, the school has had two or three bear-related lockdowns, he said.

A state bear specialist and deputies used rubber bullets to scare the bears. Sheriff George Anderson and Mike Madel of the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks followed the bears into a creek bottom on foot and chased them west.

Madel said the yearling cubs probably were searching for birdseed. Two yearling bears got into birdfeeders northwest of town earlier this week, he said.

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/4454234/detail.html

[Rainbowreflect]

1. Bear (bare) lock-down sounds kinda kinky.

Or it just me?