![Backcountry Guide Dead After Yellowstone Grizzly Attack](http://townsquare.media/site/101/files/2020/05/GrizzRS.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Backcountry Guide Dead After Yellowstone Grizzly Attack
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) — A backcountry guide has died after he was mauled by a large grizzly bear just outside of Yellowstone National Park in Montana.
![Wake Up Wyoming logo](http://townsquare.media/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/glennwoodsshow.png?w=100)
Get our free mobile app
The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office says the man who had gone fishing alone died Saturday, two days after he was attacked by the bear in a forest several miles north of the park gateway town of West Yellowstone.
The bear was shot and killed last Friday after charging a group of game wardens and others investigating the attack.
Officials say they are confident that the bear they killed is the one that attacked.
Officials say the male bear was probably defending a nearby moose carcass.
More From Wake Up Wyoming
![Who Will Survive The Wyoming Tourists Olympics?](http://townsquare.media/site/102/files/2019/10/Yellowstone-Tourist.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Watching Tourists DIE Is A Favorite Wyoming Pastime](http://townsquare.media/site/961/files/2023/09/attachment-bison-pins-man-to-ground-yellowstone-touronsofyellowstone.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![WATCH! Top 5 Yellowstone Bison Near Misses](http://townsquare.media/site/961/files/2024/06/attachment-Top-5-Bison-Near-Misses-FB.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Yellowstone Bison Top 5 Greatest “HITS”](http://townsquare.media/site/961/files/2024/05/attachment-bison-tourist-youtube.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Tourist Regrets Rolling Down Window To Take Selfie With Bear](http://townsquare.media/site/101/files/2017/05/grizzly-getty.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Wakey, Wakey: First Grizzly Bear Emerges from Hibernation at Yellowstone National Park](http://townsquare.media/site/101/files/2020/08/Grizzly-630x420.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Woman Survives Wyoming Bear Attack… Or So We Thought](http://townsquare.media/site/961/files/2021/10/attachment-YouTube-Screen-Grab-sewtell.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![VIDEO: Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Fights Off Pack of 14 Wolves After Stealing Their Food](http://townsquare.media/site/101/files/2022/10/attachment-Screenshot-169.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![WATCH: Wyoming Man Describes Shooting Himself While Fighting Bear](http://townsquare.media/site/961/files/2022/10/attachment-Wyo-man-decribes-bear-attack-youtube.jpg?w=980&q=75)