11 Year Old Utah Boy Killed By a Bear
Breaking & sad news out of Utah where a family reported their 11 year old son missing and possible abducted. The family was camping in Timpanogos Wilderness Area when they discovered the boy missing and a large tear in his tent.
Mount Timpanogos Wilderness
* Established in 1984 through passage of the Utah Wilderness Act.
* 10,518 acres.This area is located on the front range of the Wasatch Mountain Range, just south of the Lone Peak Wilderness. The Mount Timpanogos Wilderness offers abundant rugged terrain with waterfalls and summer wildflowers. The topography consists of glacial cirques and moraines (rocks formed into loose ridges by glacial activity) to the open slopes leading to the valley floor.
Below tree line are forests of aspen, Douglas fir, subalpine fir, limber pine, Gambel oak, maple, and chokecherry. Wildlife inhabiting the area include Rocky Mountain goats in the Emerald Lake region, as well as numerous mule deer and elk, moose, mountain lions, black bears, and several species of raptors.
The summit of Mount Timpanogos is 11,753 feet and is very popular hiking trail. The summit is accessed by two trailheads: Timpooneke and Aspen Grove.
Authorities quickly found blood and signs that lead them to belive that his attacker was a bear shortly after 1 am the boy’s body was recovered. I’ll have further updates on this story.
Cool story brotha. Wish you could have got one, after all the head ache. T.
That’s terrible. Was the area posted with warnings about bears?
Comment by Kristine Shreve — June 18, 2007 @ 9:51 am
Being a breaking story at this time there is no information about that. I understand that at this moment Utah Authorities have a team tracking the bear and will kill it when they find it. My assumption is that it’s a black bear and whether there was problems with it in the past or not it’s to early to tell. Our thoughts and prayers are certainly with the family that must be devastated with such a horrific event befalling them .
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Definitely, my sympathies are with the family. It just seems that there has been a rise in animal/human problems lately, and I’m starting to wonder if some of them aren’t because humans sometimes tend to disregard warnings about animal problems in the area.
I’m not saying that’s necessarily what happened in this case. I just wondered.
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