Wow, do Alaskans love bats! Last week’s column on little brown bats inspired three times the comments I usually get. People rang in with bat sightings from Nikiski to North Pole; a few offered up their secret spots to scientists who might want to study bats. Jesika Reimer, a bat expert and consultant who lives […]
Alaska State Troopers advise that a brown bear involved in the attack of a moose hunter on Thursday night, which may or may not be wounded, has yet to be located in the Chilkat River/Haines area. At 7:59 pm on Thursday evening, troopers received a report of a bear attack with injuries along the Chilkat […]
At 7 pm on Friday evening, Wildlife Troopers were alerted of a bear attack on a moose hunter in the area of Eureka/Gunsight Mountain area near the Glenn Highway between Palmer and Glennallen. According to the report, two hunters, while out hunting moose at that location surprised a Brown Bear sow and her two cubs. […]
Late Sunday night, while on patrol on the Parks Highway near Willow, a trooper spotted a white 2009 Chevy van that was suspected of numerous thefts in the Willow area and so attempted to pull the vehicle over for various equipment violations and for erratic driving. Instead of pulling over for the 11:30 pm […]