Bear Attacks

City reopens Bicentennial Park trail frequented by bears

An Anchorage city park trail where two people were mauled by grizzly bears in 2008 was reopened Monday to the public. The Rover's Run trail was unusually quiet this summer

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2nd woman mauled in Bicentennial Park

Deer hunter fends off brown bear attack near Sitka

A Sitka deer hunter fended off a brown bear's attack by clubbing it with the butt of his rifle and then firing a round. Karl Wolfe, 39, escaped with bites to his arm.

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Twig snap alerts dog-walker to charging grizzly

For Soldotna fishing guide Greg Brush, the rare and precious finally arrived -- a summer day off between king and silver salmon seasons. But then the slightest noise -- a twig snapping -- prompted Brush to glance over his shoulder to see, less than 20 yards away, a brown bear charging.

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Montana deer hunter rescued after attack by Kodiak bears

A Montana man badly mauled in a bear attack and unable to get help holed up in a cabin with his hunting partner for two days before being rescued Tuesday afternoon.

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DNA test IDs grizzly in mauling of jogger

A DNA test has confirmed that Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials in August killed the bear that mauled a 51-year-old jogger in an Anchorage park.

Mauling victim recounts attack on city trail

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Recovery from grizzly attack results in 'thriving' outlook

Dan Bigley barely survived being mauled by a grizzly on the Russian River in 2003, a horrific attack with a dramatic rescue, an attack that left him blind.

Mauling victim moves on with life

Orphaned bear cubs to leave for new home in Indianapolis

The Alaska Zoo is saying goodbye to two grizzly bear cubs taken in after their mother was killed in August by Fish and Game officers.

Bear attacks teen bike racer

City closes Rover's Run after maulings

Grizzly charges park volunteer, forces closure

A grizzly charged a Chugach State Park volunteer at a Hillside trail head Tuesday morning, prompting park officials to close the area until a nearby moose carcass can be cleared out.

Second orphaned cub caught in dog run

A brown bear cub orphaned two weeks ago has been captured and reunited with its sibling at the Alaska Zoo.

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Guide likely saved bear attack victim's life

After a glorious week of watching herds of migrating caribou in the wild mountains of Alaska's Brooks Range, Jo Ann Staples was in her tent packing her bags to head home to Kentucky when a grizzly bear jumped on her back and nearly killed her, Gates of the Arctic National Park superintendent Greg Dudgeon said Friday.

Grizzly attacks woman in tent

Guide saved woman during bear attack

Grizzly attacks woman in tent

A grizzly bear dragged a woman out of her tent Thursday and mauled her in a remote corner of Gates of the Arctic National Park in far north Alaska, according to the National Park Service.

Guide likely saved bear attack victim's life

Game officials kill sow grizzly, try to capture 2 cubs for zoos

The grizzly that mauled Anchorage resident Clivia Feliz in Far North Bicentennial Park on Aug. 8 is believed to be dead, according to Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials.

City closes Rover's Run after maulings

Bear encounters and attacks in Far North Bicentennial Park prompted the city on Tuesday to close Rover's Run Trail, the scene of two serious maulings this summer.

Biologists continue hunt for grizzly, 2 cubs

The active hunt for a grizzly sow and two cubs fizzled Monday, with state wildlife officials unable to locate the animals on a trail in Far North Bicentennial Park that has been the site of two maulings in recent months.

Park-attack bear manages to avoid city hunters

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Mauling victim recounts attack on city trail

Park-attack bear manages to avoid city hunters

As Alaska wildlife officials continued to search for a grizzly bear believed responsible for several attacks in Far North Bicentennial Park, city cops shot and killed a black bear dining on garbage Sunday in a nearby neighborhood.

Biologists continue hunt for grizzly, 2 cubs

Mauling victim recounts attack on city trail

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Mauling victim recounts attack on city trail

Clivia Feliz was the second person in six weeks to be mauled by what biologists believe to be the same brown bear with two cubs on the Rover's Run trail, which parallels the salmon-rich Campbell Creek in southeast Anchorage. "I'm lucky," she said from her hospital bed.

DNA test IDs grizzly in mauling of jogger

Park-attack bear manages to avoid city hunters

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2nd woman mauled in Bicentennial Park

For the second time in six weeks, an Anchorage resident has been mauled by a grizzly bear in Far North Bicentennial Park.

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Eagle River man fights attacking bear to draw

Devon Rees could have played dead. Or run. Instead, he chose to fight the bear that lunged out of the woods near his home in Eagle River on Monday morning.

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Grizzly's victim is improving

A woman mauled by a bear Wednesday at the Kenai Princess Wilderness Lodge is improving, her mother said Friday.

Woman recovering after Cooper Landing bear attack

Lani Vin Zant picked up her ringing phone in Wasilla late Wednesday night. The only thing on the line was her 15-year-old daughter Andria, sobbing.