A woman was sentence to four days in pokey , meet a bunch of fines , and will be exclude for a year from Yellowstone National Park for gettingdangerously nigh to a grizzly bear familywhile visiting the park in May .

Speaking about the case , the   Acting US Attorney for the District of Wyoming did not mince their words , comment that the charwoman should be think lucky that she ended up a criminal defended and not a " mauled tourist . "

A telecasting ( below ) of the face-off , which went viral earlier this yr , bear witness the woman filming a silver-tip and its three sonny boy on her smartphone . Even after the grownup bear angrily dash towards   the fair sex in a " four flush explosive charge " ( when a bear charge but suddenly stops before making any contact ) she remain remarkably unfazed and stay on to film before walking away .

TheNational Park Servicehas announced that the char , 25 - year - old Samantha Dehring from Illinois , pleaded shamed to wilfully remaining , upcoming , and photograph wildlife within 100 yards . The other reckoning — bear on to eating , touching , teasing , fearsome , or intentionally disturbing wildlife — was dropped . Appearing in court of justice on Wednesday , Dehring was condemn to the four - day poky term , a number of mulct add up to $ 2,040 , and was go forth a twelvemonth ’s banning from the ballpark .

“ Approaching a sow grizzly with cubs is absolutely dopey . Here , pure fate is why Dehring is a felonious defendant and not a mauled tourist , ” Bob Murray , Acting US Attorney for the District of Wyoming , said in astatement .

Yellowstone National Parkregulationsstate visitors must stay 23 meters ( ~75 feet ) away from all large animals , such as bison , elk , bighorn sheep , deer , moose , and prairie wolf , and keep at least 91 meters ( ~300 feet ) aside from bears and wolves . It ’s also illegal to wilfully persist near or border on wildlife within any aloofness that disturbs or displaces the animal . In the words of theNational Park Service : “ If you cause an animal to move , you ’re too close . ”

“ Wildlife in Yellowstone National Park are , indeed , wild , ” said Murray . The park is not a zoo where animal can be catch within the safety of a fenced natural enclosure . They ramble freely in their natural habitat and when jeopardise will react accordingly . ”