Posted on 05/24/2018 6:53:23 AM PDT by simpson96
A 28-year-old woman who finally earned her “dream job” working as a grizzly bear researcher is now recovering in the hospital from serious injuries after she was attacked by one of the powerful animals.
Amber Kornak, a seasonal wildlife technician with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was mauled by a bear while working alone near a stream in the Cabinet Mountains of Montana on May 17.
Kornak was able to reach for her canister of bear deterrent during the attack, which allowed her to fend off the animal and save her life, her friend Jenna Hemer said on a GoFundMe page set up to help the injured animal lover in her recovery.
Despite the brutal attack leaving the wildlife technician with two skull fractures and multiple lacerations to her head, neck and back, Karnak mustered the strength to walk nearly two miles — bloody and in pain — to her work vehicle to find help.
Once medical personnel responded, Hemer wrote, Kornak was life-flighted to Kalispell Regional Medical Center, where she went through four hours of surgery to remove bone fragments and clean the wounds to her brain.
Once at the hospital, doctors placed metal plates and screws in Kornak’s skull and used drains to divert the liquid from her swelling brain.
Doctors were able to stabilize Kornak in the days that followed, Hemer wrote in an update, and she has since been downgraded from the ICU and had the drains removed from her head.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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“I feel sorry for the people that have to be around you.”
You’re calling a poster a “dirtbag”,a “scumbag” and “good for nothing” because you don’t like an opinion?
I feel sorry for the people that have to be around YOU.
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So now another bear needs to die because of this twit. Sad!!
You call it an “opinion” referring to an injured person who was doing her job and now has no means to pay for her sustenance? You too must be a real piece of work. And, yes, decent folks have an obligation to call out incivility and i humane behavior. You cant hide behind fake conservative anonymity.
“You too must be a real piece of work”
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There you go again.
I never said I agreed with the other poster,I was responding to your reply.
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Around here we used to call him Timothy Snackwell.
LOL!
Well, what exactly do you expect when you defend the indefensible?
Freedom of Speech does Not mean freedom from criticism. If people cant take criticism then maybe they should not make insensitive, stupid or inappropriate comments. Everyone is reponsible for the consequences of his actions.
I have been seeing pictures of idiot tourists in the Great Smokey Mountains trying to pet a sow and her cubs. Can you say Darwin Award winners in the making!
I had a friend who drove through the Smokes to work each day and he came upon a tourist parked in the road trying to catch a snake one morning. He got out and looked and it was a four foot diamond back coiled and ready to strike. My friend explained, you are about to die if he bites you. Oh I just want to pet it and look at the rattles. My friend got in his truck drove around the tourist and splat ran over the rattler. The tourist was having a conniption fit. My friend had probably just saved the damned fools life.
“If people cant take criticism then maybe they should not make insensitive, stupid or inappropriate comments. “
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Not a damned thing wrong with criticism of comments.I never said there was,the problem is personalizing it and insulting the poster,not the comment.
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Is it hemorrhoids or too much caffeine?
sadly, i doubt it was a learning experience
Treadwell again
Small, young black bear been snooping around my place multiple times per day. Guard cat runs and birds
Capitals are determined
No coyote sightings by me
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