A bear attack that injured a man sleeping in an Aspen park was one of several such incidents reported this week amid a record year for bear activity in Colorado, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said.
Wildlife officials said the homeless man was sleeping in Rio Grande Park early Wednesday morning when a bear approached and began sniffing him before biting him on the head. He was treated for head and facial injuries and later released from the hospital.
Wildlife officers later located a bear matching the description from the Aspen attack. The adult female bear, which did not have cubs, was euthanized in accordance with CPW policy. The animal was sent to the agency’s Wildlife Health Lab in Fort Collins for a necropsy and DNA analysis.
In Steamboat Springs, a woman was injured early Monday after a bear forced its way into her home through a damaged sliding glass door near Fish Creek Falls Road. When she tried to chase the bear outside, it struck her in the face, causing cuts. She was treated at a hospital and released.
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