"This bear was just a beautiful bear," Madel said.

Madel said the big male with the bronze head, golden back and dark
chocolate legs could weigh as much as 900 pounds by the fall.

"This is really a large male," he said. In fact, it is the
second-largest male grizzly ever recorded in the Northern Rockies
Region, Madel said.

Madel captured the bear he dubbed "Big Daddy," on May 24. He was trying
to capture female grizzlies near Choteau to fit them with radio collars
to track their movements and whether they have cubs.

"We actually were trying to avoid males," Madel said.

But he decided to put a radio collar on the bear to track its range.

Madel said he didn't know the big bear even existed.

"Here's a bear that's down on the Front, and he's accustomed to moving
in and around human activity, and he's never caused a conflict before,"
Madel said.

There is a picture of this bear at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/20/AR2007062000765.html

WOW...that is a huge bear!

Really, and he was moving around with humans!!!

Makes you wonder if there are bigger ones out farther in the
mountains!!!

I was wondering what happened. I haven't seen him around here lately.