Wildlife News

Eagle River trail would be bear road, biologist warns

Work could begin as early as next month on a new trail that would eventually connect Eagle River High School with Chugach State Park via a grizzly bear corridor.

Photos: Reader-submitted bear sightings

Photos: Urban bears

Electric utility pleads guilty in destruction of bald eagle nest

The electric utility in Juneau has pleaded guilty to destroying a bald eagle nest.

Anchorage is on pace for record number of bear kills

If Anchorage continues killing at the current pace, the city may set a record for dead bears this year thanks to unplanned run-ins with humans.

Photos: Urban bears

Photos: Reader-submitted bear sightings

Bear sightings message board

Interactive map: Tracking bears in Anchorage

Grizzlies leave nerves frayed on Peninsula

Anchorage's big wild life has got nothing on Cooper Landing, the small Kenai Peninsula town where the latest bear tale has a bit of a Wild West spin to it.

Bear sightings message board

Interactive map: Tracking bears in Anchorage

Photos: Urban bears

Photos: Reader-submitted bear sightings

'Moose whisperer' earns biologist's scorn

The latest urban man-beast encounter this summer has state wildlife biologist Rick Sinnott saying the obvious: Don't pet the Big Wild Life. Don't befriend wild moose.

Photos: Moose gallery

Reader submitted: Moose gallery

Conservation groups sue to protect Arctic marine mammals

Two conservation groups are challenging the Bush administration's recent decision to let oil companies unintentionally harass or harm polar bears and walruses in the growing pursuit of fossil fuels off the northwestern Alaska coast.

Group on the lookout for line-tangled whale

Whale-watchers are keeping a vigil over the Strait of Juan de Fuca in northwest Washington state for a young humpback whale entangled in crab lines.

Wood bison: giant blast from the past

In June, the state packed more than 50 wood bison into a pair of special semi trailers and trucked them from Canada to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in hopes of creating a new seed stock that could one day repopulate portions of the state.

Video: Wood Bison Celebration

Bears among us: Too close for comfort?

Always there have been the bears in and around Anchorage. Never before has there been a bear mauling in town.

Photos: Reader-submitted bear sightings

Letters to the editor: Bears and the city (7/6/08)

Photos: Urban bears

Video: Walking the trail where the mauling occurred

Interactive map: Tracking bears in Anchorage

Brown bears close, elusive

Unlike most other summer schools in town, Trailside Discovery at the Campbell Creek Science Center doesn't mind if the 140 or so kids who attend its wilderness study programs each day get dirty and make noise. Especially when groups of them head into bear country -- a few hundred feet to the north.

Interactive map: Tracking bears in Anchorage

Thousands of swarming bees set Eagle River neighborhood abuzz

Jessica Mathis looked out at her Eagle River neighborhood Wednesday evening and saw what she thought was a tiny dust storm churning down her street.

Income no factor in caribou, moose permits -- for now

The state won't consider your income when deciding whether you get a subsistence permit for hunting Nelchina moose and caribou this year, the Board of Game decided this week.

Zoo's newborn snow leopard cubs die

Keepers at the Alaska Zoo are mourning the deaths of two snow leopard cubs born this week. The deaths marked the zoo's second failed effort to produce leopard offspring in captivity.

Photos: Alaska wildlife gallery

Photos: Baby animals

Steller'sea Lion research calculates survival rates

Researchers aboard the F/V Norseman departed Dutch Harbor, Alaska, on June 24 on a voyage to monitor Steller's sea lion populations.

Is 'rogue' grizzly on loose? Not likely

Was the brown bear that crossed paths with two Anchorage runners near the Hilltop Ski Area three weeks ago a "rogue bear"? That's unlikely according to city officials and state biologists.

Interactive map: Tracking bears in Anchorage

Audio: 911 call for bear mauling victim

Video: Walking the trail where the mauling occurred

Russian River bears relocated

State Fish and Game officials relocated a pair of bold young Russian River grizzlies Saturday in hopes of keeping the bears away from humans.

Attack risk high in city's bear-dense park

There aren't just a couple of grizzlies that traipse through Far North Bicentennial Park at the eastern edge of Anchorage each summer. At least 20 have passed through over a two-year period.

Is 'rogue' grizzly on loose? Not likely

Russian River bears relocated

Interactive map: Tracking bears in Anchorage (2005)

Photos: Urban bears

Photos: Reader-submitted bear sightings

Groups sue to force decision on belugas

Five conservation groups have sued the federal government for delaying a listing of Cook Inlet beluga whales under the federal Endangered Species Act.

Trail closed; attack sparks debates

As 15-year-old Petra Davis started down a long road to recovery from the injuries in Sunday's bear mauling, Anchorage city officials were busy trying to close the trail where the attack happened and wondering what to do about a growing problem with people and bears in the city.

Cyclist's cool thinking saved bear attack victim

More wood bison rumble into Alaska

The state Department of Fish and Game has trucked 53 wood bison into Alaska from a national park in Canada as part of a bid to revive the species for hunting purposes after it died out in the state.

Rulings keep protection for murrelet

Timber industry efforts to get a small sea bird off the threatened-species list have been denied in two court rulings.