Dusty has been gone a week now and with every passing day Jack Forshee worries more. In his worst moments, the 62-year-old man fears that one of his new neighbors in Bear […]
Love lost
Cat tales
In the wake of an unconfirmed sighting of a mountain lion on the Anchorage Hillside, it is worth revisiting the history of cougar reports in and around Alaska’s largest city. Wildlife biologists […]
Cook your meat
Once again Alaskans are being warned about the danger of undercooked meat from animals that carry the trichinellosis roundworm. Three years ago, the problem was with a group of out-of-state hunters who enjoyed […]
Bear attack update
Just days after residents of a subdivision just outside of Seward, Alaska, came under fire for killing a grizzly bear and cubs that appeared a danger to people, the shop teacher from […]
Denali wildlife ‘crisis’
The first significant, national criticism of Alaska’s unique subsistence hunting and fishing system is coming from a group that represents local, state and federal resource professionals. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) […]
On killing bears
Commentary After surviving nights of terror, residents of a subdivision outside of the small Alaska community of Seward got to become villains. Their crime? They participated in or supported the killing of […]
AK bear-attack cluster
With four bear attacks in two months in an area about the size of Phoenix, Southeast Alaska has what can only be called a “bear-attack cluster.” Most of America is more […]
Bear ‘groaned,’ and attacked
UPDATED with victim’s names With a badly mauled hiking guide in a Seattle hospital starting down a long road to recovery, a more complete picture is beginning to emerge of what at […]
Pepper spray ends bear attack
A woman leading a hike along a salmon-filled stream in Southeast Alaska was mauled by a brown bear on Thursday, but saved by a fellow guide who used a can of pepper-spray […]
Bear killed, man shot
Everything happened so fast when a grizzly bear attacked in the thick brush along Alaska’s Humpy Creek at the end of July that Kim Woodman found himself acting purely on adrenaline and […]
