The Alaska Department of Fish and Game was on Monday actively moving to quash any rumors of favoritism in the award of a grizzly bear hunting permit to Donald Trump Jr., the […]
The hunters
Feeding the bears
Oregon State University researchers working in Alaska’s Bristol Bay have now documented what has been obvious to many bear biologists for a long time: small salmon streams are important to big bruins. […]
Summer of peace
A year on from a record kill of problems bears in Alaska’s largest city, the Anchorage bear “problem” appears to have all but evaporated. As the bruins head for hibernation, the Alaska […]
Fat, fatter, cutest
Once it was left to scientists and big-game guide to judge the size of grizzly bears in Alaska, but in the age of information, Katmai National Park and Preserve came up with […]
Sockeye rising
News analysis As the sockeye salmon return to the rivers of Cook Inlet and the famed late-run king salmon nose into the Kenai River, there are reasons for fishermen of all persuasions […]
Bearlandia
The recalcitrant black bear brought to an end a day when too much time was wasted on Facebook engaged in discussions about bears. They focused mainly on protection: bells, air horns, flares, […]
Battlin’ bruin
With the shooting of a young grizzly bear in Anchorage this week, the bear wars in Alaska’s largest city begin again in what has become an annual, seasonal struggle that has left […]
‘Terrifying’
On any typical Sunday in fall or early winter with the National Football League playing on TV sets all across the 49th state, it’s easy to be lulled into thinking Alaska is […]
Record kill
Snow was falling on Anchorage on Monday, and the last couple black bears still roaming the urban edge of the nearly 2,000-square-mile municipality were thought be headed at last to dens where […]
No chance
A long-buried state report is shedding new light on a 2017 bear attack that left a young, Anchorage woman dead in Central Alaska and another woman injured and traumatized. The women were […]
