The woman contacted her husband, telling him she had been charged by multiple bears and had used bear spray. Shortly after that, she stopped responding to phone calls and messages.
Wildlife
Injured campers paddle 6 miles to safety after bear mauling near Skilak Lake
A bear charged them in their tent while they were sleeping.
Fire crews respond with force to fire in Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
The fire is burning 10 miles from Sterling and isn’t threatening any lives or property.
Young Juneau bears are now getting kicked out of their dens
To prevent bears from becoming habituated to garbage, a City and Borough of Juneau ordinance specifies that garbage should be kept in a secure location until 4 a.m. on pick-up day.
Federal appeals court rules Trump administration was wrong to reverse protections for Pacific walrus
The ruling comes more than a decade after the Center for Biological Diversity, a conservation group, first petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the walrus as endangered or threatened.
Biden administration puts Arctic refuge leases on ice as it asks for new environmental reviews
The Interior Department has suspended oil and gas leases in ANWR that were issued to Alaska’s state-owned economic development corporation and two smaller companies in the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency.