UPDATED A grizzly bear mauling of a deer hunter in Southeast Alaska has brought to five the number of attacks reported in the northwest corner of the Alexander Archipelago since Aug. 7. […]
AK Bear attack #5
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 […]
Denali bear dead
A Denali National Park and Preserve grizzly bear that had taken to chasing people in the Savage River area in hopes of obtaining food might have had a reason. Park rangers who […]
Bad news bear back?
Just when you thought it was safe to go into the park – Denali National Park that is – the Savage River troublemaker could be back. Or at least some grizzly bear […]
Grizzly bear gone lost
Fate may have intervened to save the life of a young grizzly bear on whose head Denali National Park officials imposed a death sentence earlier this month. The subadult bear appeared doomed […]
Reality TV claims a life
The creative director at RideApart.com, a major website for motorcycle adventure, has died in a freak, off-trail, motorsport accident in the Front Range Chugach Mountains above Anchorage. Forty-three-year-old Jim Downs from North […]
Denali hikers escape bear
As the hunt continues for a sub-adult grizzly bear with an attitude that has been threatening people near the Savage River in Denali National Park and Preserve, photos have emerged of rangers […]
