Anchorage’s rewarding and risky cycling A news analysis Friday was a great day for a gravel-bike ride on the backroads of Anchorage’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, where it is common to see more […]
Bearlandia
Banff bear deaths
Questions raised as to use of bear spray Update 10/5/2023: A friend of the dead couple has told the Calgary Herald and other Canadian news organizations that they were apparently attacked while […]
Second guessings
A state fisheries biologist who fell victim to an unusual bear attack near Hidden Creek on the east end of Skilak Lake in mid-June says he doesn’t want to talk about […]
Bear battles
Despite government officials and residents of Alaska’s largest city quietly racking up more than two dozen bear kills this year, there were still a few bruins out roaming snow-covered Anchorage as Thanksgiving […]
Cold spray works
As the snow creeps down the mountains of coastal Alaska and the temperatures drop, researchers from the Lower 48 have good news for bear wary, end-of-season hikers: Bear spray has now been […]
Bears attack
No one will ever know how Daniel Schilling met his demise in the Kenai Mountains above the long-abandoned mining community of Sunrise this summer, but many will long wonder given that two […]
No sacrifices
If you visit a national park in the U.S., do not abandon your hiking companion or companions to a bear to save yourself. That is the rather odd advice now being offered […]
Bearanoia victim
Since 26-year-old Angel Heaton shot herself in the hip with the .40-caliber handgun intended to save her from bears, she’s pretty much become the poster child for the worst that can go […]
Dead bear walking
High above Alaska’s largest city in a subdivision on the edge of the sprawling half-million-acre Chugach State Park, a delinquent young black bear might well owe his life to a snout full […]
Preparation
Before time dulls memory, Alaskans who rode out the end of November earthquake that shook the Anchorage metropolitan area to its core might want to take a look back at what got […]
