Tourists Feeding Bear, Yellowstone NP, 1910
Postcard of visitors watching bears being fed photographed by JP Clum Lantern, 1910. Early visitors to Yellowstone National Park developed an interest in the area's wildlife, especially the bears. Garbage dumps that attracted bears quickly became a primary tourist attraction. At the height of the bear-feeding era, hundreds of people watched nightly as bears fed on garbage behind Park hotels. By 1900, Yellowstone became well known as the place to see and interact with bears. In 1902 the park officially prohibited visitors from hand-feeding bears. In 1910 the first reported incidents of bears seeking human food along Park roads. And sadly the first confirmed bear-caused human fatality occurred in 1916. Yellowstone National Park is a national park located primarily in the state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho.
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