Carlos Cadiente shows off the back bone and back strap of a Sitka blacktail deer Tuesday on the porch of his Star Hill home.
The popular Gustavus cow moose hunt has been canceled for this fall season.
...It's bear season, so be prepared. KINY has reported a black bear spotted around Switzer Village. Alaska Department of Fish and Game Wildlife Biologist Ryan Scott said this is the first sighting he's heard about, and it's right on time...
DILLINGHAM - While the sight of a brown bear in the wild can be awe-inspiring, the sight of a furry thief in your smokehouse filled with drying salmon can be downright discouraging. Just ask Anuska Olson. She and her husband, Hjalmar, have spent their entire lives in the Dillingham area, and too many times have unwillingly donated their family's fish to an ursine robber.
When a mother brown bear is killed in Kodiak, leaving cubs alive and orphaned, a heart-wrenching decision about their fate must be made.
A fisherman shot and killed a sow grizzly as she charged him in the early morning darkness Saturday on the banks of the Russian River.
A runner near Soldotna was mauled by a grizzly sow protecting her cubs. The man's wounds were not life-threatening, authorities said.
Black bears have arrived earlier than usual in the town of Craig, digging in the dumpsters for food because of low salmon returns and a shortage of berries, officials said.
...hope that hunters would dispose of these things in a place not frequented by a lot of people," said Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist Polly Hessing.
Very little has been known about the mountain goats that roam the steep coastal mountains north of Berners Bay, but that's starting to change.
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