Lying on a gravel bar in the middle of a tiny creek in remote Alaska, I brought a brown bear into focus through a telephoto camera lens. It was neck-deep in water, head resting on a fallen tree limb, ...

Brown bears are large mammals with long, shaggy hair and big appetites. Most North American brown bears are part of the subspecies called grizzly bears. Their thick coats aren’t always all-brown, but ...

Chris Johnson, his father, is an Alaska State Trooper who served with the US Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 30 years. Tyler Johnson said his father’s experience with bear attacks helped ...

I spent 20 years guiding in Alaska. Either you get comfortable fishing around the Alaskan brown bear or you quit. I captured the journey through my lens.

Another first-round match pits Bear 903, an 8-year-old male who was given the nickname Gully after he developed a taste for seagulls, against Bear 909, the mother of Bear 909 Jr.