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Mark Bruscino of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department reported on trophy game animal/human conflicts in Wyoming in 2008.

Number of conflicts by species:
Wolf - 55
Black bear - 125
Grizzly bear - 169
Mountain lion - 16
These conflicts involve property damage, livestock killed, or the killing of trophy game animals.

The grizzly bear conflicts involved:
76 property damage
11 food rewards
2 human injuries
68 livestock depredations; and
15 non-agency deaths (poached, ran over, killed in self defense, mistaken identify deaths).