Horse and mule team pack new bear boxes into remote Wyoming wilderness campsites By Brendan LaChance on February 3, 2021
From left to right: Ben Acres, Wildlife Services Non-lethal Specialist, Dusty Lasseter, Game and Fish Bear Wise Coordinator, Luke Ellsbury, Game and Fish Large Carnivore Specialist and Jess Hicks, Assistant Packer for the Specialty Pack String, Shoshone National Forest. (Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
CASPER, Wyo. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department said on Tuesday that people camping at sites in near Granite and Beauty Lake in the Shoshone National Forest will have access to bear boxes used to store food and other attractants.
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Early one morning, eight volunteers surrounded a table with a 400 pound grizzly bear carcass in its center. Draper Natural History Museum Assistant curator Corey Anco said they are defleshing the animal. They are removing all of the meat around the bones, all the meat around the ribs, all the meat around the vertebrae, said Anco. And they re trying to get this as clean as we can reasonably so.
Anco said once the bones are cleaned as well as possible without hurting them, the bones are then given to flesh eating beetles. They will then clean those bones to the best of their ability, he said. And they do a remarkable job with minimal or no damage at all to the skeletons as opposed to boiling it, which can really kind of break down the integrity of the skeleton.