Hunting and Fishing News: Judge awards $1.95 million to family of boy killed by bear in American Fork Canyon

LINK/ARTICLE SUBMITTED BY GARY DEVINE

 Published: Wednesday, May 4, 2011 12:29 a.m. MDT

SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge awarded $1.95 million Tuesday to the family of a boy who was killed by a black bear while camping in American Fork Canyon nearly four years ago.

Sam Ives, 11, was killed June 17, 2007, when he was dragged out of his family\’s multiroom tent and mauled by a massive black bear.