Anchorage man, Isaac Landecker pled guilty at arraignment on Wednesday for taking a Brown Bear during the closed season. As a result of his guilty plea, Landecker was fined $3,000 with $1,500 suspended. He was additionally ordered to pay restitution of $1,300 and placed on probation for three years. Landecker’s plea was a direct result […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — A Soldier with the Alaska Army National Guard was mauled by a brown bear sow on JBER Sunday morning at about 11:45 a.m. while he was participating in a land navigation exercise. He is currently enrolled in the Alaska Army National Guard’s 22-day Warrior Leadership Course for junior enlisted Soldiers. […]
The Penguin Ridge Trail has been closed after a reported bear attack on a female jogger suffered an attack by a bear sow with cubs on Monday morning. According to the trooper dispatch, 59-year-old Susanne Knudsen was running on the trail when two brown bear cubs emerged from the brush alongside the trail in front […]
(Soldotna) – The RB300 spring registration hunt for brown bears on the Kenai Peninsula closed on May 31, and information gathered from harvest reports, sealing records and hunter comments is providing Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists early insight into the hunt and some new regulations governing it. The total spring brown bear harvest […]