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Moose sightings

Location: Anchorage, 02/07/2012 My husband was on his way home & had taken a short cut through a neighborhood only to find this moose using a car to get to the higher branches of the tree!

Moose pictures submitted by our readers.

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2011/12 Alaska winter

From low sunlight, plunging temperatures and massive snow fall, Alaska's winter are an extreme mix of beauty and danger. Post a photo of you how you live through it.

RSVP: February 2012

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in February, 2012.

Reader submitted: 2012 Aurora Borealis

Location: Point Woronzof Park Anchorage, AK, 01/24/12

RSVP: January - 2012

Location: Sheraton Anchorage, 01/14/12 The Chenega Commercial Holdings, LLC team poses for a group photo at the 2011 Stars of the Industry event at the Sheraton Anchorage. The Alaska Hotel & Lodging Association hosts this annual event to recognize and celebrate excellence in the hospitality industry.

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Cordova snowstorm

Location: Cordova, AlaskaThis was even before the final part of the storm!

Cordova residents are tunneling out after several snow storms moved through Prince William Sound.

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A mother black bear with three cubs visited the Faltz Nursery near the Seward Highway and Huffman on Friday August 13, 2010.

A mother black bear with three cubs visited the Faltz Nursery.

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Stuckagain Heights bears.

Madeline Knowlton took pictures of a sow and three cubs as they explored her house Thursday and Saturday. Saturday morning they tried to get in through a door that they'd gotten in two days before. The sow did serious damage to the door before APD officers shot her and two of the cubs.

Polar Bears

Their status as an endangered species is a hot political item, but the images of these rare arctic animals are a breathtaking sight.

Brown Bears Visit Turnagain Mud Flats

Dozens of people were treated to the sight of two brown bears rooting around in the mud flats of Turnagain Arm just north of Bird Point Monday morning June 22, 2009. There have been many bear sightings in recent days along the bike trail in the area and the campground at Bird.

Dozens of people were treated to the sight of two brown bears rooting around in the mud flats of Turnagain Arm just north of Bird Point Monday morning June 22, 2009. There have been many bear sightings in recent days along the bike trail in the area and the campground at Bird. Chugach State Park officials closed part of a popular bike trail in the area earlier last week due to the bears activities.

PHOTOS

Charlie Vandergaw with bears

Photos of the Alaska 'Bear Man' with bears.

Urban bears

A black bear with two cubs foraged through garbage at residences on Apollo Drive in East Anchorage on Monday, May 4, 2009.

Bears are a common sight in the city during the summer.

McNeil River Bears

Photographer Bob Hallinen visited the Mcneil River and captured some fascinating photographs and video of Alaska's famous inhabitants.

Bears at the zoo