Owen Beierman, 12, took aim at the bear as it pinned down his dad while they were on a legal hunting trip. "Owen was a hero," Ryan Beierman, 43, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. "He shot that bear and killed it on top of me.

A father-son hunting trip in Wisconsin could have become deadly without the quick thinking of 12-year-old Ryan Beierman, who saved his father's life from a black bear attack.

The National Park Service said it does not know what species the bear belongs to yet, but there are black and grizzly bears in Glacier National Park.

The man hiked over a mile to Granite Park Chalet with assistance and was flown by a "Two Bear Air" rescue helicopter to a spot where he could be taken by ambulance to a hospital in Whitefish. The trail from Haystack Butte to the Granite Park Chalet will remain closed until further notice, officials said.

A section of a trail in Montana’s Glacier National Park was closed Thursday after a hiker was injured by a bear, park officials said.