Hunting of Kodiak bears is limited and strictly controlled. While the population of Kodiaks appears to be stable, there is ...

Three 4-month-old Kodiak brown bear cubs were dehydrated, starving, cold, wet, exhausted and unprotected when a well-known hunting guide rescued them and put them up in his own cabin.

Not exactly a soothing bedtime lullaby, but such is life in close quarters with a ravenous 700-pound Kodiak brown bear — as hunting buddies Bob Easterbrook Jr. and Dan Marshall discovered when ...

This year’s spring brown bear season on Kodiak finished with record low participation following changes to procedures because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only was the nonresident hunt canceled ...

Part of that is economic – visitors fly to Kodiak Island for bear sightseeing tours and trophy hunting trips. But veteran bear biologist Larry Van Daele said there’s also a cultural pretext.

The spring bear hunting season closed Monday, and that means it’s time for local biologists to do their bear survey. Listen now Kodiak biologists to conduct bear population survey ...

Vanished: Bear Trails: Stories of hunting bears on Kodiak Island. Vanished: Bear Trails: Stories of hunting bears on Kodiak Island . By Darrell Farmen. Publication Consultants, 224 pages, 2019. $19.95 ...

These vintage photographs of bear biologists, bear hunters, and more were taken on the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge from 1950 through the 1980s. A collection of vintage hunting, fishing, and ...

Getting pinned to the ground by a Kodiak bear is not how most people would like to spend a vacation, but that’s exactly where one airman found himself while on a hunting trip in Alaska last October.