This story, “Fred Bear at 80,” was published in the March 1982 issue of Outdoor Life. In the early 1940s a seemingly insignificant event took place. A man from New York, who worked for the Corning ...

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — The Grayling City Council has decided not to proceed, at least for now, with a proposal to rename the city park after Fred Bear, a bow hunting pioneer. The ...

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The organizers of Fred Bear Day are asking the City of Grayling to consider changing the name of its city park. With the unveiling of the Fred Bear statue back ...

THE MOOSE was standing shoulder-deep in frost-yellowed willows. Though he was on a slope nearly a mile away across the valley, we could make out with the glasses that he was big as a horse and had a ...

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 ...

Bear didn't hunt deer with a bow until he was 29 years old. Other archers in his home state of Michigan also got a late start. Archery hunting for deer wasn't legalized there until 1937, when fewer ...