In some states there is a bounty for the destruction of grislies; and in many places their skins have a market price, although much less valuable than those of the black bear.

The men who pursue them for the bounty, or for their fur, as well as the ranchmen who regard them as foes to stock, ordinarily use steel traps.
The trap is very massive, needing no small strength to set, and it is usually chained to a bar or log of wood, which does not stop the bear's progress outright, but hampers and interferes with it, continually catching in tree stumps and the like.

The animal when trapped makes off at once, biting at the trap and the bar; but it leaves a broad wake and sooner or later is found tangled up by the chain and bar.

A bear is by no means so difficult to trap as a wolf or fox although more so than a cougar or a lynx.

In wild regions a skilful trapper can often catch a great many with comparative ease.