This killing occurred in 2014 according to the article. I have read a few articles in the last few years where the PGC has snagged some illegal bear killers, hopefully this was one of them. Unfortunately, the illegal killing of bears is an all too common occurrence. Sometimes after some yahoo kills a bear illegally of this size and realized how much help they will need to retrieve the animal or skin it where it lays, they just leave it lay. In this case the bear was along a road when it died and not a good place to work on it.