The widow of a man killed by a grizzly bear not long after the animal awoke from tranquilizers in the wild country near Yellowstone National Park has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Yolanda Evert filed suit on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Cheyenne. The lawsuit seeks $5 million from the federal government. The lawsuit says grizzly bear researchers prematurely took down signs that warned passers-by of the work that they were doing. The 430-pound male grizzly bear mauled Erwin Evert, of Park Ridge, Ill., on June 17, 2010. Evert had been hiking about a mile from the cabin where the Everts lived for part of the year. The attack occurred where scientists had snared and tranquilized the bear hours earlier.
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