In 1941, while hunting on Admiralty and Chichagof Islands in southern Alaska, I knocked down a small brown bear which ...

“Thought you told me these bears up here go after moose nose like kids after ice cream,” Darrel kidded. “Here we’ve been on this moose hunt for two weeks and nary the sign of a bear. Just doesn’t ...

My rule of thumb for planning trips into the backcountry is “worst-first”, get prepared for the worst case first, and go from ...

As the summer winds down and the fall rears its chilly head, bears transform from shy and quiet residents of North America’s ...

Dozens of hunters turned out to hear details and best practices meant to deter, defuse and survive bear encounters while in the field, at a presentation last week hosted by the Alaska Department of ...