Alaska’s bear hunting season is a long-standing tradition thanks to the state’s rugged wilderness and complex ecosystem ...

Adult Kodiak bears may eat as many as 30 salmon a day, although often they don’t eat the entire fish, preferring the skin and eggs when there’s plenty. Fresh footprint of a Kodiak bear yearling.

In 1941, while hunting on Admiralty and Chichagof Islands in southern Alaska, I knocked down ... “Once we picked up two ...

About 10,000 people make the difficult trek here each summer to see the bears, some staying at a small lodge or the campground at Brooks Camp, others flying in from elsewhere in Alaska for the day.

After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly popular online voting ...

I recently decided to surprise my family with a trip to our nation’s 49th state, Alaska. I say “surprise” because I asked them where they wanted to go the most this summer, and they mentioned ...

Grizzly bears might be the West's most iconic wildlife species, and they're certainly one of the most controversial. The apex predators make headlines constantly, whether it's an attack on a hunter, a ...

AFOGNAK ISLAND, Alaska — Everyone here has a bear story. Not a bear-spotting story, which is almost daily, but a bear encounter, a confrontation where both parties have a choice to make — fight or ...