Alaska State Troopers reported on Sunday that a LifeMed helicopter responded to the scene southeast of Swan Lake on Sunday afternoon and airlifted an injured 16-year-old and transported her to Providence Hospital in Anchorage. Troopers received a report of the AT accident at 3 pm on Sunday from near the Knik Glacier and Helo 3 […]
LA PEROUSE GLACIER — During our first lunch at a blue-gravel campsite near this Alaska glacier named after a French explorer, scientist Ben Gaglioti and I had a visitor. As we sat on bleached slabs of wood, I held in my left hand a rectangular cracker with peanut butter smeared on top. We heard a […]
For the first time since the Wrangell-St Elias National Park’s creation, a hunter has been mauled in a fatal grizzly bear attack the National Park revealed on Tuesday. The hunter, whose identity as yet has not been revealed, was on a 10-day moose hunt near the Chisana River drainage with a friend when the […]
(DEADHORSE) — A 10-year-old female grizzly was killed in Deadhorse Thursday evening and her two cubs of the year captured after their attraction to human-provided foods led them to break into kitchens and food-storage areas. Long monitored as a research animal by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the female known as “Bear 147” […]