A 38-year-old mountain biker has been killed by a grizzly bear near Glacier National Park, Montana.
Brad Treat died on Wednesday afternoon on a trail in the Halfmoon Lakes area of the Flathead National Forest.
Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry said Mr Treat was with another person when they surprised the bear, which knocked him off his bike.
The second rider was not injured and went to get help.
The body of Mr Treat, who worked for the US Forest Service, was found at the scene, but the bear has not been located.
Mr Curry said: "Brad was an integral member of our area law enforcement team and a friend to us all."
Mr Treat grew up in nearby Kalispell and was an outstanding distance runner in high school, his former coach said.
"He was a really good runner but he was also a kind-hearted person who cared about people," Paul Jorgenson told the Flathead Beacon newspaper.
Before this attack there had been 10 bear-related human deaths in Glacier since the park was created in 1910.
The last was in 1998, when three bears killed and partially ate a park employee while he was hiking.
Source: SN
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