Rare winter bear warning issued after skiers passing by wake grizzly
An early and unexpected wake up call for a Kananaskis grizzly, thought to have been roused from its hibernation by a group of passing skiers, has prompted a rare winter bear warning from Alberta Parks.Arian Spiteri, district conservation officer for Peter Lougheed provincial park, said the groggy bruin was first reported by a group of six skiers who were in a remote area south of Upper Kananaskis Lake last week just as it emerged from its winter den.
In those cases, the uprooted bruins will normally just seek out another den and hunker down until spring.In order to give the grizzly some space to find a new refuge, park officials have closed a significant, though remote, area of Kananaskis, stretching between Upper Kananaskis Lake and through the Sarrail Creek drainage below Mt. Foch. The closure does not impact the popular Rawson Lake area. Aerial photo of a bear den taken in 2018 after the bear had already left it in the spring.
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