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 […]
For the second time in less than a week another victim has fallen prey to a bear attack in the state. On Sunday morning, a Kodiak man called into the Kodiak Police Department reporting that he had been mauled by a Kodiak Brown Bear. 71-year-old Donald Zimmerman called in and reported the bruin attack […]
UPDATE: Alaska State Troopers released the name of the man mauled and killed last week while clearing trail on his property as 46-year-old Daniel Shilling, of Hope. ORIGINAL: Alaska State Troopers revealed this morning that they were advised of a fatal bear mauling in the Hope area of the Chugach National Forest late on […]
Image: Alaska Air National Guard Senior Master Sgt. Jeremy Diola and Master Sgt. Cody Inman, both pararescuemen with 212th Rescue Squadron, demonstrate the gear they carried when jumping from an HC-130J Combat King II to rescue the victim of a bear mauling near Galena. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by David Bedard/Released) JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, […]