Soldotna-based Alaska Wildlife Troopers responded to Cooper Landing after being notified of bear attack at that location at 7:38 on Sunday evening. AWT opened a preliminary investigation that would find that a hiker and his border collie encountered a sow with two cubs along the Kenai River Trail and the canine chased the bears. The […]
Two campers camping at the mouth of Hidden Creek in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge were injured in a bear attack on Saturday the refuge reports. The campers were attacked by a bear early Saturday morning. Following the attack the two campers managed to kayak to the Upper Skilak Lake Campground where the were assisted […]
An Alaska Wildland Adventures employee was the victim of a bear attack near Cooper Landing on Tuesday late afternoon while out running with another on the Cottonwood Creek Trail, it was reported by troopers. 26-year-old California resident Kaitlin Haley called 911 at 4:26 pm to report the bear attack on the trail on the south […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued five people on Skilak Lake on the Kenai Peninsula, Nov. 9. A boater on Skilak Lake contacted authorities for assistance when his boat’s engine jammed, explained Master Sgt. Armando Soria, a controller with the Alaska Rescue […]