If you are out on a long hike or camping you’re probably hoping you don’t run into any bears. For some hunters, it’s the ...

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 ...

Vanished: Bear Trails: Stories of hunting bears on Kodiak Island . By Darrell Farmen. Publication Consultants, 224 pages, 2019. $19.95. People in Alaska these days have mixed feelings about bear ...

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.

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 ...

Tyce Erickson was stalking bears on Kodiak Island in Alaska in May, hoping to bag one with his bow from close range, when the bear suddenly charged at his hunting party.

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.

I was carrying a 65-pound Kodiak model of my own make and razorhead hunting arrows, a good lethal outfit, but this bear was too far away and the alders too thick to be sure of a killing shot. I’d ...