'Not all heroes wear capes': Dog saves hiker from charging grizzly near Cochrane, Alberta

He’d even tracked down Banff National Park’s most famous grizzly — known as The Boss — last month on the Bow Valley Parkway as Parks Canada officials monitored the bear.

“I had my hiking stick and gloves on, trying to lift my coat and I realized I didn’t have time and the bear was too close,” he said.But at that moment, as the grizzly sow was about seven metres from him, 10-year-old Doberman Night sprang into action, silently charging the bear and getting within inches of it.

After reporting the incident to provincial fish and wildlife officials, he was told the bears were known to them and were the only grizzlies in the area, but that their last determined location had been 10 km to the northwest. Provincial government officials and wildlife experts say an Alberta moratorium on grizzly hunting dating back to 2006 has helped the species’ population grow from between 700 and 800 in 2010 to between 900 and 1,150 now, including those in the national parks.The hunting moratorium is part of a grizzly recovery strategy that’s now under review, though provincial officials say there are no plans for now to lift the ban.

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