Chicken-eating grizzlies moved

Two young grizzly bears with a taste for chickens were captured this week in the LaBrant Road area east of Kalispell and then relocated.

The two males were trapped Wednesday by Tim Manley, a state grizzly bear management specialist.

Manley said the 2- to 2 1/2-year-old bears probably are siblings that recently set out on their own. They had been near homes in the Lake of the Woods area for several days. At one point, they crawled under a fence and killed eight chickens.

They were relocated to the Trout Lake area along Hungry Horse Reservoir on Thursday.

Earlier this week, a young male grizzly bear was trapped north of Swan Lake and moved to the Unawah Creek drainage along Hungry Horse Reservoir.

That bear had been grazing on grass near homes in the Ferndale area.