A wildlife enthusiast witnessed nature’s raw power as he captured a “huge” brown bear hunting and devouring a salmon just meters away.Chris Bray, who recorded the video, runs wildlife photo tours ...

Wilderness Island Tours updates its 2026 Hoonah Coastal Brown Bear Tour with expanded wildlife viewing standards ...

This brown bear could catch salmon in its sleep. Though bears will eat just about anything, they might not have a snack that they favor more than salmon. Especially these coastal browns who have all ...

Learn about the AI program that's recognizing individual brown bears in Alaska by their faces and poses.

Alaska’s bear hunting season is a long-standing tradition thanks to the state’s rugged wilderness and complex ecosystem management. With two native bear species—the brown (or grizzly) bear and the ...

“Brown Bears in Alaska’s National Parks: Conservation of a Wilderness Icon” Edited by Grant V. Hilderbrand, Kyle Joly, David D. Gustine, and Nina Chambers; University of Alaska Press (University Press ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — 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 ...

Conservation groups sued Monday over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown bears and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou herd in the southwest ...

Every bear story needs a bear. Mine appeared on day five of a hunt in the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska a couple of years ago. I was asleep in a tent made of yellow canvas so bright it ...

A new polar bear genetics study has come up with a relatively recent estimate for the time when those bears separated into a species apart from brown bears. The study, conducted by an international ...