How awful. You'd think they could have just 'shot' it with a tranquilizer gun rather than a gun with bullets. Not sure why they had to try and trap it first. We always see clips on the news of our Conservation Officers shooting mama bears and their cubs with tranquilizer guns when they are up in the top of the tree of a populated area. The bears fall out of the tree and are completely out of it. 'Then' they are put in a bear cage and later released somewhere else. I wish they could have done this for this poor bear.