Woman, 65, is killed by a grizzly 耐える that dragged her from her テント while she was sleeping during a long-distance cycling trip in Montana

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A woman was killed by a grizzly 耐える that pulled her out of a テント at a campsite in Montana in the middle of the night.?

Leah Davis Lokan, 65, of Chico, California, was on a long-distance bicycling trip and had stopped in the town of Ovando when she was killed 早期に Tuesday, Montana Fish, 野性生物 and Parks (MFWP) said.??

Lokan was attacked on the 耐える's second visit to the 場所／位置 where she and two fellow bicyclists were （軍の）野営地，陣営ing 近づく the 地位，任命する office, 公式の／役人s said.

The だいたい 400-続けざまに猛撃する grizzly first arrived at about 3am and awakened the campers who then took food out of their テントs, 安全な・保証するd it and went 支援する to sleep.?

監視 ビデオ from a 商売／仕事 in town showed the 耐える about a 封鎖する from the 地位，任命する office about 15 minutes later.?

About 4.15am, the 郡保安官's office received a 911 call after two people in a テント 近づく Lokan's were awakened by sounds of the attack, Powell 郡 郡保安官 Gavin Roselles said.?

The fellow campers 発射する／解雇するd 耐える spray at the animal to 軍隊 it to 逃げる - but not before it left Lokan with 致命的な 傷害s.??

Leah Lokan, 65, (pictured) was killed during a 耐える attack while （軍の）野営地，陣営ing in Ovando, Montana, the Powell 郡 郡保安官's Office 確認するd Wednesday afternoon

Lokan, a 登録（する）d nurse who had worked at a hospital in Chico, had looked 今後 to the Montana bike trip for months, her friend

公式の／役人s said the grizzly 耐える that killed Lokan 重さを計るd about 400 続けざまに猛撃するs (とじ込み／提出する photo)

First responders and a ヘリコプター 救急車 arrived at the scene and 試みる／企てるd to save Lokan's life, but were 不成功の.?

The 耐える is also believed to have entered a chicken 閉じ込める／刑務所 in town that night, 殺人，大当り and eating several chickens.

公式の／役人s searched by ヘリコプター for the grizzly again Wednesday but couldn't find it.

'At this point, our best chance for catching this 耐える will be culvert 罠（にかける）s 始める，決める in the area 近づく the chicken 閉じ込める／刑務所 where the 耐える killed and ate several chickens,' said Randy Arnold, the MFWP 地域の 監督者 in Missoula.

によれば the 広大な／多数の／重要な 落ちるs Tribune, a?専攻するd search and 救助（する） team from 'Two 耐える 空気／公表する' is 補助装置ing with the search, 利用するing 'ゆらめく 科学（工学）技術'.?

The 耐える will be killed if it is 設立する, によれば MFWP 広報担当者 Greg Lemon.?

捜査官／調査官s have 得るd デオキシリボ核酸 from the 耐える at the scene of the attack and will be able to compare it with any bruin they are able to 罠（にかける）, the 機関 said.

Ovando saloon owner Tiffanie Zavarelli said it was the first 致命的な 耐える attack she knew of in the community.

'Everybody's pretty shaken up 権利 now,' Zavarelli said, によれば CBS News. 'The people from Montana, we know how to be "耐える aware." But anything can happen.'?

A ヘリコプター from Montana Fish, 野性生物 and Parks 飛行機で行くs around the Ovando area on Tuesday in search of a 耐える that killed Lokan

The Powell 郡 郡保安官's Office 発表するd on Facebook that they're looking for the 耐える

Lokan, a 登録（する）d nurse who had worked at a hospital in Chico, had looked 今後 to the Montana bike trip for months, her fr iend Mary Flowers said.??

Lokan had taken previous long-distance bike trips and on this one was …を伴ってd by her sister and a friend, Flowers said.

'She loved these 肉親，親類d of adventures. A woman in her 60s, and she's dong this 肉親，親類d of stuff -- she had a passion for life that was out of the ordinary,' Flowers said.

She 棒 for?the Chico Cycling Team, Women on Wheels and spent time volunteering with Chico Velo, によれば the Chico 企業-記録，記録的な／記録する.?

'It’s unbelievable,' Chico Cycling Club 大統領，／社長?マイク Castaldo said. 'You always hear about stuff like that but it’s never that の近くに to home.'

Castaldo 述べるd Lokan as a '解放する／自由な spirit' who 'always had a smile on her 直面する.'

'She was a good woman. She’s going to be 行方不明になるd,' Castaldo 追加するd.

'She was doing what she loved which was 存在 in the mountains, riding her bike, 引き上げ（る）ing and （軍の）野営地，陣営ing,' 明言する／公表するd Pamela Plemmons, a leader of Women on Wheels.

Grizzly 耐えるs have run into 増加するing 衝突 with humans in the Northern Rockies over the past １０年間 as the federally 保護するd animals 拡大するd into new areas and the number of people living and recreating in the 地域 grew.?

That has spurred calls from elected 公式の／役人s in Montana and 隣接地の Wyoming and Idaho to 解除する 保護s so the animals could be 追跡（する）d.

The 耐える will be killed if it is 設立する, said a spokesperson for Montana Fish, 野性生物 and Parks

Two months ago, a?woman eaten by 耐えるs as she walked her dog, as a 検死官 said she died from 'perforating' neck 負傷させるs.

Laney Malavolta, 39, was identified four days after 存在 killed while walking her two dogs 近づく Durango, Colorado, on April 30.

Ovando, about 60 miles northwest of Helena, is a community of より小数の than 100 people at the 辛勝する／優位 of the sprawling （頭が）ひょいと動く Marshall wilderness.

North of Ovando lies an expanse of forests and mountains, 含むing Glacier 国家の Park that stretches to Canada and is home to an 概算の 1,000 grizzlies. It's the largest 集中 of the bruins in the contiguous US.

致命的な attacks are rare in the 地域. There have been three in the last 20 years, 含むing Tuesday's mauling, によれば the US Fish and 野性生物 Service.

In 2001, a hunter was killed by a grizzly with two cubs while he was gutting an elk at a 野性生物 管理／経営 area west of Ovando. The three animals were 発射 and killed by 野性生物 公式の／役人s days later.

Over the past 20 years, there have been eight 致命的な maulings of people by grizzlies from a separate popula tion of about 700 耐えるs in and around Yellowstone 国家の Park.?

In April, a backcountry guide was killed by a grizzly 耐える while fishing along the park's 国境 in southwestern Montana.

耐えるs that attack people are not always killed if the mauling resulted from a surprise 遭遇（する） or the 耐える was defending its young.?

But the 耐える 伴う／関わるd in Lokan's death is considered a public safety 脅し because of the circumstances of the attack, Lemon said.

One rider working on a seven-week trip appears unconcerned about any 未来 出来事/事件s.

'We carry 耐える spray and keep our food in a 耐える-proof 捕らえる、獲得する,' Jim Drake said. '耐えるs are always a 脅し, but as long as we take 警戒s, we're not too worried. I think we're more likely to be 攻撃する，衝突する by a car than attacked by a 耐える.'?