A woman who was fatally mauled by a grizzly bear in last summer was the victim of a rare predatory attack by a bear that had learned to seek out human food and was likely attracted scents near her tent and others left behind from recent Independence Day picnics, wildlife officials said in a new report. Leah Davis Lokan, 65, of Chico, was dragged out of her tent and mauled in the pre-dawn hours of July 6, 2021 in the small town of Ovando, along the banks of the Blackfoot River, made famous by the movie 'A River Runs Through It.' About an hour before the mauling, the bear had approached the tents where Lokan and a couple were camping behind a museum. She awoke to the massive 417-pound bear so close to her that she heard when he 'huffed' at her head.
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