Charlie Vandergaw - Alaska 'Bear Man'

'Bear Man' fined; no jail time

Photo courtesy State of Alaska
In this scan of a court evidence photo, Vandergaw appears with a black bear.

Charlie Vandergaw, the "Bear Man" of the Mat-Su, was fined $20,000 today but will serve no jail time after pleading guilty to eight charges of illegally feeding game.

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CHARLIE VANDERGAW - ALASKA 'BEAR MAN'

Mat-Su 'bear man' pleads guilty to charges of feeding game

After nearly a year of legal wrangling, Charlie Vandergaw, who for 20 years fed and coexisted with the bruins at his Mat-Su cabin, has pleaded guilty to eight counts of intentionally feeding game.
CHARLIE VANDERGAW - ALASKA 'BEAR MAN'

'Bear Man' prepares defense against state charges

Charlie Vandergaw has been coexisting with bears this way for the last 20 years, and he wants to be left alone. That is not likely to happen now that the state is using a beefed-up law to prosecute Vandergaw for feeding bears.
CHARLIE VANDERGAW - ALASKA 'BEAR MAN'

Bear Haven man faces state game charges

After 20 years of enticing bears into a remote compound tucked away in a little visited corner of the Yentna River valley, retired Anchorage school teacher Charlie Vandergaw said last fall he was ready to end his bear-taming shenanigans.
CHARLIE VANDERGAW - ALASKA 'BEAR MAN'

'Bear man' TV series begins broadcasts

The Animal Planet television series about bear man Charlie Vandergaw, the retired Anchorage teacher who has spent more than 20 summers living with wild bears at his remote cabin in the Yentna River drainage, has begun airing.
CHARLIE VANDERGAW - ALASKA 'BEAR MAN'

Bear 'haven' on wrong side of law

Long unhappy with Charlie Vandergaw's intimate relationship with wild Alaska bears, state authorities are moving to put his Bear Haven out of business. Vandergaw has already been cited for feeding bears, but the charges levied against him next could go much farther.