Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Two brown bears look for salmon at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, July 4, 2013. (AP File ...

The state of Alaska’s cull of brown bears around the Mulchatna caribou herd north of Dillingham is not especially ...

Juneau, Alaska — Conservation groups sued Monday over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou herd in the ...

Predator control is not pretty. It is not supposed to be. That is because wildlife management in Alaska cannot be guided by feelings. It has to be guided by science, law, food security and ...

Caribou from the Mulchatna herd cross a frozen pond near Eek Lake, south of Bethel, Alaska, in 2021. Credit: Katie Baldwin Basile/KYUK When Janet Bavilla was a teenager, it wasn’t hard to find caribou ...

Lawsuit says 186 bears shot dead from helicopters since 2023 Environmentalists say disease, lack of food threaten caribou State game officials deny they are putting bears in peril Nov 10 (Reuters) - ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska wildlife agents can resume shooting and killing black and brown bears — including from helicopters — as part of a plan to help recover a caribou herd that was once an important ...