With a soldier dead at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) on the edge of Alaska’s largest city, the state’s first fatal bear attack of 2022 was making national news on Tuesday. First reported […]
First fatal
Furry friends
Armed with hundreds of trail cameras, scientists from across North America have come up with the data to form a list of the wildlife most and least comfortable around people. Most of […]
Beach ball bear defense
Anchorage gun shop owner Niels Green found himself unarmed Thursday when a black bear confronted him at a distance of only a couple of feet on a footbridge near Seward, but he […]
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 […]
Saved by truck
An Anchorage man who reported intentionally running his truck into a moose is being praised as a hero by his neighbors on social media. They have good reason if the story told […]
Bear kills
An attack by a grizzly bear is reported to have left an Anchorage-area man dead on a primitive trail near the popular Chugach Outdoor Center about 25 miles southeast of the city […]
Look out!
Fat-tired cyclists and runners coming off Alaska’s most famous trail have a one-word warning for mushers about to head north Sunday in the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to Nome: Moose! […]
News ecology
By now many reading this have heard of the kerfuffle involving the German news weekly Der Speigel and award-winning reporter Claas Relotius, who created “fake news” at a world-class […]
Dealing with bears
A second archer has been attacked by a grizzly bear while hunting elk near Yellowstone National Park, but this time bear spray worked to drive off the sow and a cub. A […]
Another grizzly dead
A young, Bird Creek grizzly bear that concluded the easiest way to obtain salmon was to take them from fishermen is dead. Chugach State Park chief ranger Ben Corwin shot the […]
