Discarded evergreen trees provide entertainment, novelty and sometimes a snack for moose, wolves, musk ox and other animals at Anchorage’s zoo and the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center.
Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials had ruled that trapping could be safely allowed and would not pose a danger to the overall wolf population.
The gray whale population has plunged by about a quarter along the West Coast since 2016, according to estimates released Tuesday.
Interactions with “nuisance lynx” are leading to speculation that their main food source, snowshoe hares, may be in a down cycle.
The bird’s pelvis was shattered and there was mounting lead poisoning from a type of shotgun ammunition that is illegal in Alaska, and it had to be euthanized.
The tiny birds gorge themselves during the day, find a tiny roost in a tree and shiver their way through the night.
They are predatory butcher birds that will dine on everything from insects to small mammals and even other songbirds.
Residents were alerted to the humpback whale’s plight after they heard its sounds of distress.
The decision was based on “threats associated with ongoing and projected changes in sea ice and on-ice snow depths stemming from climate change within the foreseeable future.”
A brown bear was struck by an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Saturday evening as the plane was on the runway after landing in Yakutat. The bear was killed, but no one on the plane was injured.
The decision to extend the trapping season followed a hearing during which residents of Prince of Wales Island said too many wolves were preying on deer.
An Alaska scientist is working down the food chain testing samples of fish and squid to try to find out why.
Wolves are targeted because they prey on the Prince of Wales Island’s deer, but critics say commercial logging is the real problem for deer.
Wildlife officials believe a brown bear that charged a man multiple times was defending a moose carcass, though no one has actually seen the dead moose.
As many as 22 bears have been shot in Haines in defense of property this year, according to Fish and Game statistics, 10 by law enforcement and as many as 12 by members of the public.
It’s finally Bear 747′s time to shine.
A marine biologist said the whale likely came from the Cook Inlet population.
“This is probably the fattest Fat Bear Week ever,” a Katmai National Park and Preserve ranger said.
Park officials say the bear got into cabins, sheds and lodges and posed a threat despite sharply reduced visitor numbers this season.
Alaska Department of Fish and Game personnel killed the large brown bear a few nights later. They started getting reports last week it was tipping over Dumpsters in surrounding neighborhoods.
