Mysterious Montana

Phillip Blanchard · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2002 7:51 am

BILLINGS -- The Yellowstone County coroner's office says Billings City Councilman Stephen Bradley, 49, died of a sudden heart attack.
Bradley's body was found last week after concerned relatives, who hadn't heard from him in several days, phoned police.
The Yellowstone County coroner's office said the heart attack came about as a result of a bad coronary artery. (Great Falls Tribune)***That'll do it.***

JayByrd · **Posted:** Thu Aug 29, 2002 3:16 pm

Them bears just don't have no respectIDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) - A Forest Service biologist says confrontations

between bears and people, such as last weekend's mauling of an Ohio man near

Yellowstone National Park, are more likely to happen this fall than in some

past years...

An Ohio animal activist is recovering at an area hospital after his face was

gouged by the teeth of an enraged mother grizzly bear.

Jesshua Amun 38, was one of a group of four people tracking buffalo as part

of the West Yellowstone-based Buffalo Field Campaign, a group that protests

the killing of bison from nearby Yellowstone National Park.

Guest · **Posted:** Thu Aug 29, 2002 5:22 pm

I quit my career for two years to roam and work in the national parks, and spent one of those years in Yellowstone. I routinely saw and overheard:-- Tourists ask rangers to hold the elks still so they could put their kids on them for picture-taking purposes.-- People make kissing and whistling sounds at bison to get them to come closer to rolling video cameras.-- One tourist assuring another: "They wouldn't put animals in national parks if they weren't tamed for us."Then again, we should be infinitely grateful for stupid people ... when they inevitably die due to Darwinian principle, we get some damned good stories. And, if we're lucky, equally good "spaghetti" art.

JayByrd · **Posted:** Fri Sep 06, 2002 12:05 am

Bear mauling victim wanted in Ohio
BOZEMAN (AP) An animal rights activist who was mauled by a grizzly bear near West Yellowstone while tracking a bison is being returned to Ohio where he is wanted on multiple charges of failing to pay child support.
The man identified himself as Jesshua Amun at the time of the mauling Aug. 25.
Police in Butler County, Ohio, said his real name is Jeffrey Scheu, a jailer at the Bonneville County jail in Idaho Falls, Idaho, told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle on Thursday.
"He's in the process of being shipped out to Ohio," the jailer said.
A sheriff's deputy in Idaho Falls arrested Scheu, 36, at the hospital Tuesday after Ohio law enforcement officials contacted his office. \par Scheu's picture, featuring his badly mauled face, appeared in newspapers across the country after the mauling.
Officials said Scheu is wanted on six counts of failing to pay child support in Ohio.
He and three other members of the Buffalo Field Campaign, a group that protests stat
e and federal actions that harass or kill bison when they leave Yellowstone National Park, had been tracking a bull bison north of West Yellowstone that day when they surprised the bear.
Scheu, who tried to run from the bear, needed hundreds of stitches to close his facial wounds. His companions were unharmed.

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