Grizzly killed after breaking into kitchens in Alaska town

State game officials have killed a10-year-old female grizzly bear after it began breaking intokitchens and food storage areas in Deadhorse, a support enclave forthe oil industry on Alaska's North Slope.

The bear's two cubs were captured and will be relocated to a zooin Oakland, California.

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Dick Shideler, a state wildlife biologist, squarely placed blame for the bear's demise on Deadhorse residents not using bear-proof garbage cans.

He says people need to stop placing food waste in unsecured bins,a practice that made this bear conditioned to human-provided food.

The grizzly killed is well-known to researchers on the NorthSlope. She was known as "Bear 147," and spent her life aroundDeadhorse and the nearby Prudhoe Bay oilfields.

This is the first lethal removal of a bear in Deadhorse, locatedabout 16 kilometressouth of Alaska's northern coast, since seven bears were killed in 2001-2002.