The closure will give bears unhindered access to shallower waters.
Wildlife
Beaver dams burst, blocking Richardson Highway with debris. Twice.
No vehicles were caught in either slide.
It’s summer, and that means the mysterious return of glacier ice worms
These thread-like worms, each only about an inch long, wiggle up en masse in the summertime, late in the afternoon, to do — what? Scientists don’t know.
LISTEN: How a Bethel woman survived 2 nights on a mountainside after being charged by bears near Palmer
Last month, a woman from Bethel started a late afternoon hike in Southcentral Alaska that turned into a survival mission that spanned three days.
LISTEN: The night a black bear pawed our tent
Emma Farnsworth and her boyfriend woke to the sound of their tent tearing. The first thing she saw was an eye.
LISTEN: Alaska bumblebees are master twerkers, thriving in an unfriendly climate
As bumblebees have declined in parts of the Lower 48, they’re apparently thriving in Alaska, even in the high Arctic.