262: The Queen of the Tetons. Grizzly 399.

National Park After Dark

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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On October 22, 2024 a legacy ended when Grizzly 399 was hit by a car and killed. She was the most beloved bear in the world and the oldest known grizzly to bear cubs in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. She gained popularity when she strategically raised her cubs by the roadways and tolerated human interaction. In this episode we tell her story, the legacy and impact she left on the conservation world, and the problems that her habituation has had and will continue to cause. Hang out until the end of the episode where we have special trail tales from listeners who had the opportunity to see her in the wild.

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0:00.0	The evening of October 22nd, 2024 marked the end of an era inside of the Grand Teton's of Wyoming.
0:10.3	A Subaru driver along Highway 89 that winds through the Snake River Canyon of Bridger-Titon National Forest
0:16.5	tried to swerve when a mass of brown appeared in front of their vehicle.
0:20.6	But it was too late.
0:22.0	Their car collided with a 400-pound grizzly bear,
0:24.9	leaving the Subaru totaled and the bear dead.
0:28.2	This wasn't just any brown bear, though.
0:30.8	This was Grizzly 399, a known icon of the area.
0:35.6	She was the oldest known reproducing female grizzly in the greater
0:39.2	Yellowstone ecosystem. Her life inspired thousands of people to visit each year in hopes of getting
0:44.6	a glimpse of her. Photographers, biologists, tourists, and people from around the world became
0:49.6	enthralled with her story. She was a local celebrity. But with many celebrity figures, their life isn't all the glamour and greatness it seems to be from the outside.
0:59.4	Her story is much more complicated and intricate than just being the most beloved bear in the world.
1:05.1	Today, we tell her story, the legacy and impact she had on the nation, and the problems that her habituation has created.
1:14.3	Welcome to National Park After Dark.
1:55.3	Welcome. Wow, you really jumped on this. You weren't kidding. Yeah. This is a pretty recent news. And as soon as I saw the news that Bear 399 had died, I bought a book for her. And I knew that this was something that we were going to have to cover.
2:03.2	Yeah. And I'm glad you're doing it because I know of her just through news headlines and just like brief things that I've read over time. And clearly her story is all over the place now, especially,
2:10.4	you know, in the immediate wake, this is being recorded at the end of October. So it's really all
2:16.0	over the place right now. So I'm glad you're covering it,
2:18.1	and I can't wait to learn about her. Yeah, I think that this is probably one of the most recent
2:23.9	stories we've ever covered, just because this is very much ongoing. Like you said, this is
2:28.2	fully in the news right now. There's a lot of unknowns that are happening. I mean, people are still
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