Articles written by Johnathan Hettinger

Johnathan Hettinger, Montana Free Press|Updated Aug 5, 2020

Brad Orsted normally avoids naming bears, but Nervous Nelly wasn't an ordinary bear. Over the past decade, dozens of grizzlies, like Nelly, have headed each fall to the fields of private ranches in the Tom Miner Basin in Montana's Gallatin Range, just north of Yellowstone National Park. In the fall of 2015, logging trucks were traversing the ranches, and most of the bears that congregated in the area got so they wouldn't even appear to notice the trucks jostling down the dirt...