Candice Berner, 32, Killed by Wolf Pack. Wolves Being Hunted
When Nature and Humans Collide
Candice Berner was traveling between five communities teaching. She has just gotten to Chignik Bay on Monday. She left work and went for a run. Some snowmachiners saw a glove in the road and soon found Berner's body which had been dragged from the road and down a hill. It's been reported that many wolf tracks were around the body of Candice Berner. At least 2 wolves and as many as 4. Bob Berner, father of Candice, said the troopers told him that there appeared to be a struggle that lasted approx. 150 ft. before Berner went down. There were also signs that she was still alive as the wolf pack dragged her along. The wolves went for her throat, as many predators do, she did not die instantly.
Mr. Berner said he was told that she was running towards town and was about a mile and a half out. Experts say that the mere fact that she was running is sometimes enough for predators like wolves to attack. It is presumed that they were upon her before she knew they were there.
Mark McNay, a retired Fish and Game biologist, said the attack was highly unusual. It may be the first documented case of a fatal wolf attack made by healthy, wild wolves in Alaska.
Troopers and Fish and Game people are headed to the area to try and capture the wolves. They are anticipating 2-3 wolves are involved. Definitely more than 1 lone wolf. Local hunters however are have started hunting the wolves. No wolves have been killed yet and some hunters are beginning to bait the wolf pack with meat to get a good shot at them. Local hunters say they have had several sightings of the wolves.
Mr. Berner said his daughter, Candice Berner was doing what she loved and she liked Alaska. He holds no anger towards the wolf pack saying that they were just doing what nature drove them to do. Chignik Bay residents are on alert and taking precautions until the threat of this wolf pack has ceased.
Candice Berner being killed by wolves has sparked the usual fights between those who want the wolves trapped or killed and those that want the people to move.
source: Anchorage Daily News
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17 Comments
Post a CommentA young girl was killed in Cape-Brittan by coyotes, She was a singer it's a terrible way to die that way but there is still a big problem at stake that the MNR will not allow that people want to shoot wolfs and coyotes. The MNR people have no compasion with farmers that are losing calfs and scheep and don't seem to have compasion with people that have died. Our governments must give the farmers the go-ahead to shoot all dangerous predators there are to many of them and we have to clean them up.
One of the problem w/ such statements is when ways of proving a wolf attack did't happen fail, the next reaction is to blame the victim for supposedly provoking the animals. Part of the logic of dismissing such claims is that wolves are-in effect-provoked into NOT arracking humans. Wolves do normally avoid humans, & you'd think that fear should be easy to reinstill into an approaching wolf. But that's been known to backfire when wolves retaliate against someone for flagging their advance. They're not the most harmless animals in the world. They're closer to being the least dangerous in proportion to potential threat.
By predators most say are harmless to humans. Beware of "harmless to humans" statements.
How awful.
So horrible!
That is just horrible.
That's a terrible way to die by a pack of wolfs it's such a nice country out there, we drove the Alaska highway 8 years ago my wife and I we loved every minute of the trip. At one time in the middle of july 2 inch of ice pellets fell from the sky on the highways it became kind of tricky. We never saw a wolf, We live in South-West ontario we are now old otherwise we would come again.We hope this will not happen again and hope that the hunters take care of the wolfs.
god what a horrible way to die
That's horrible!!
Horrible, for sure... but a perhaps unavoidable consequence of humans spreading too closely into territory of other creatures. Some wild animals will acclimate to us - others will not.