Both Crescent River and Poly Creek are thick with evergreens. Openings between the trees are filled with alder, willow, and that most repulsive of all Alaska plants, the devil’s-club. Salmon-hunting ...

Hunting for brown bears in all areas of the Kenai Peninsula is closed by emergency order starting today, the State Department of Fish and Game said Wednesday. According to an advisory announcement ...

Alaskan Brown Bear searches for Chum Salmon, also known as Dog Salmon, in a stream in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Jim Mahoney/MAHOJ. The NPS cited multiple reasons for the ban, emphasizing ...

Grizzly bear mauls 2 college wrestlers in Wyoming 01:52. A hunter in Alaska was hospitalized after being mauled by a brown bear and shot during an effort to fend it off, authorities said Monday.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) - Two men were charged by a federal grand jury in Alaska for illegally killing a brown bear in the Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge, violating the Lacey act. The ...

The annual contest, which drew more than 1.3 million votes last year, is way to celebrate the resiliency of the 2,200 brown bears that live in the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula, which extends ...

We got our first look at the big brown bear under conditions that made a stalk out of the question. It was late evening, and although the May twilight is long on the Alaska Peninsula, there was hardly ...

A brown bear fishes for salmon in Alaska on July 8, 2010. Steve Kohls / Brainerd Dispatch via AP file Aug. 19, 2024, 11:21 PM EDT / Source : The Associated Press ...

After killing the bear, the men allegedly transferred the hide from the Alaska Peninsula to a local hunting lodge, to Port Moller and then to Anchorage. Both men could face five years in prison ...