Montana Department of Fish,
Wildlife and Parks said a bear had been spotted by a business in Ovando on surveillance video Monday night, and a bear in the area had also gotten into a chicken coop.
‘Grizzly bears are common in the Blackfoot Valley where Ovando is located,’ the agency said.
The agency said biologists, conflict specialists and game wardens are searching for the bear responsible for the fatal attack.
‘Traps have been set in the area and searching will continue by ground and in the air with the priority of keeping the public safe from another encounter,’ the Powell County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on Tuesday evening.