Alaska Brown Bears Gather for Salmon Feast
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Each summer, the falls at McNeil River turn into a mosh pit of bears. Instead of thumping music, it's the sound of salmon slapping their way up the falls at the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary that sends the bears into a fishing frenzy.
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REYKJAVIK: Arctic people aim to team up with tropical islanders in a campaign against global warming, arguing that polar bears and palm-fringed beaches stand to suffer the most.
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A volunteer at the Eagle River Nature Center is recovering after being bitten by a brown bear sow. Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials say Sarah Wallmer was bitten on the buttocks on the Crow Pass Trail, about a mile from the nature center.
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Twice each year, North Dakota Game and Fish Department staff gather at agency headquarters in Bismarck. One meeting takes place in August before most hunting seasons open, while the other is held in early December after most popular seasons close.
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By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 13--Thousands of people in Kodiak and other Alaska communities might lose their right to subsistence hunting and fishing under federal law.   If that happens, many say, they'll lose a way of life.
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New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife biologist Kelcey Burguess tending to an approximately 400-pound black bear that fell from a tall tree in a Maplewood back yard after being shot with a tranquilizer Sunday. The bruin was believed to have come from the nearby South Mountain Reservation.
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By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 4--SOLDOTNA -- Backers of a proposed Kenai River gillnet fishery for Ninilchik residents ran into a thick web of opposition this weekend during the first meetings of a consensus-building group of fishermen.
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland  - What are the words used by  indigenous peoples in the Arctic for "hornet," "robin," "elk,"  "barn owl" or "salmon?"
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By Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 27--SOLDOTNA -- A subcommittee of Kenai Peninsula fishing interests  could not reach consensus on fishing methods for a subsistence fishery on the  Kenai and Kasilof rivers.
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VAIL, Colo. - A 72-year-old woman making pot roast in her kitchen discovered uninvited guests in her home Thursday: a bear and her cub.  The unidentified woman walked into the kitchen and found the bear standing six feet away, apparently surprising it, Vail police Sgt. Dan Torgerson said.
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By Alex de Marban Anchorage Daily News  ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The days of state-sanctioned sea lion hunts are long gone in Alaska, but fishermen and hunters who gunned down the sea lions are suspects in the latest study about the animal's crash.
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By Brandon Loomis  Bloomis@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun.
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There's something fishy about the bear argument.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Jun. 1--Volunteers are needed from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday to help turn a half truckload of apples into applesauce for the Idaho Foodbank.   The apples are a donation from American's Second Harvest and the Garden City LDS Cannery.
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A brown bear looking for food in a Carpathian Mountains sanatorium overnight got more than he bargained for, staff said Wednesday.
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By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 8--SOLDOTNA -- Anglers will find fewer places to fish and young salmon will find fewer places to hide here this year because of a roiling crush of ice and water that scoured the Kenai River's banks two weeks ago.
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By Patricia Barclay, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  May 26--The ultimate elitist campaign, an effort by chefs to lobby for tearing out the lower Snake River dams, has hit. Somehow, they think this will let them continue to serve wild Alaska salmon, mostly in San Francisco and Seattle.