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May
15, 2007
The
man came outside his home in a residential part of Sterling on Saturday
evening to find the bear squaring off against his dog, area biologist
Jeff Selinger said. He shot it once, and it died nearby. Officials
are treating the incident as an allowable defense of life and property.
The
bear, perhaps three or four years old, matches the description of
one that has been seen eating unsecured garbage around Sterling.
Its death is a reminder that people everywhere on the Kenai Peninsula
need to secure potential food sources, Selinger said.
"A
lot of times people have been doing everything right but they end
up with a problem because of the way the bear was trained somewhere
else," he said.
The
bear was the second grizzly shot on the Kenai this spring. The first
died in an encounter with a hiker who was searching for antlers
near Ninilchik.
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