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When I was a kid on the homestead, I was a rabbit hunter. Or at least I thought I was hunting rabbits.
When a brown bear charged him Saturday from about 30 yards away while he was on his property bordering Chugach State Park, Howard Meyer had one thing on his mind: "I thought that it was the end of my life."
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The South Fork Trail in Eagle River has long been a beloved access point to Chugach State Park. So last summer, when visitors found an excavator churning earth on the trail as part of a "realignment project" by the state, the response was anger.
The federal trial for a well-known Alaska guide charged with helping a client smuggle a 10,000-year-old mammoth fossil to Pennsylvania starts Monday in Fairbanks.
Charles Baird is going off the grid for a year. The 40-year-old oil company employee and filmmaker from Anchorage will move to the mostly uninhabited Latouche Island in Prince William Sound at the end of May, completing a dream he's been contemplating for 17 years.
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One minute, Rodd Moretz was high-fiving his 13-year-old son, Caleb, after shooting the biggest brown bear of his life. The next minute, he was tumbling down the hillside with another giant brown bear, wondering if he was going to die and how things could have gone from so good to so bad so quickly.
There are people at both extremes on the controversial issue of wolf control. Some hunters would like to see a very high moose population with almost no wolves competing with them. Others, mostly non-consumptive users, while recognizing the need and rationale for hunting, would like to see no predator control of any kind.
A brown bear "pounced" on a hunter Saturday on Kodiak Island after he killed another bear nearby, troopers say. Rodd A. Moretz of Fairbanks suffered only minor scalp injuries.
For the second straight year, the Alaska Moose Federation has received more than $1 million in state funding for a "rescue and relocation" program that didn't move a single moose last winter.
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Although the heavy winter snow may have them wanting to hit the snooze button, it won't be long before local bears begin to rise and shine for the spring. That means now is the time to begin making preparations to avoid dangerous encounters with Alaska's most notorious forest dwellers.
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