The Idaho Department of Fish and Game says a grizzly bear has been spotted in the Kelly Creek area near the North Fork Clearwater River.
Officials say a radio-collard male grizzly was seen roaming the Kelly Creek area and has been monitored in hunting units 10 and 12 in recent weeks.
With a black bear hunting season underway, the department is urging hunters to be vigilante in identifying their targets before harvesting.
According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, the 2-year-old male bear was released in the West Cabinet Mountains in Montana, near Spar Lake on July 21st, 2018. It moved south from the release and crossed the Clark Fork River, spending most of that summer in the area before moving north, back into the West Cabinet Mountains to den for the 2018-19 winter.
The grizzly bear emerged in late March, and crossed the Clark Fork river before moving south in late April. Around June 10th, it was located 40 miles southeast of Kellogg before recently making its way to the Kelly Creek drainage. (Idaho Department of Fish and Game)
