West Yellowstone, Mont. _ A 38-year-old man was in fair condition Monday after a grizzly bear attacked a group of animal rights activists hiking eight miles northwest of here.

The victim, who was not identified, and three other members of Buffalo Field Campaign surprised a grizzly sow and two cubs Sunday afternoon.

Clarke Ball, who was behind the other hikers, said he found his companion bleeding from his face and legs.

"He got his face mangled," said Ball. "He had two puncture wounds on his knee and two on his right-hand side below the kidney."

The hikers were part of a group of activists who annually monitor and occasionally disrupt Montana's efforts to keep bison from entering the state from nearby Yellowstone National Park.

-- Anonymous, August 27, 2002

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Oh how ironic......I will not laugh, I will not laugh, I will not laugh. It really isn't funny......obviously it was a politically incorrect non-vegan bear???

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2002

Supreme, isn't it? Put in same file as that guy who invented jogging and died of a heart attack in mid-jog.

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2002

YES.....I absolutely hated to jog and when he died I have never....ever jogged again!!! Life does have it's little moments of sweet victory now doesn't it?? (dang.....am I sick or what???)

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2002