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Wildlife biologist Jim Lieb has it wrong; we don't to kill more brown bears to make hiking safer in and near Anchorage. Sections. Alaska News Politics Opinions Sports Talk to us Opens in new window.

When I hear talk of Alaskan brown bear hunting, two things come to mind immediately, plenty of ammunition and a first aid kit. Hopefully we would need just the 470-grain, .500-caliber peacemakers.

In the meantime a Unit 14C brown bear hunting program focused on generating a minimum harvest of 10 percent of the population per year could be considered. If nothing else, ...

I wanted to be selective on my brown bear hunt. Instead, the brush was so thick I stumbled into a take-or-be-taken situation. By Frank C. Hibben. Published May 4, 2025 9:00 AM EDT. Illustrated by ...

Some Petersburg residents would like to see a fall brown bear hunt in Unit 3. The Petersburg Fish and Game Advisory Committee has introduced two proposals to expand brown bear hunting near Petersburg.

About 20% of Sweden’s brown bear population could be killed this hunting season after licenses were issued for 486 of the animals to culled, despite an outcry from conservation groups.

A sow brown bear walks with two cubs through the forest at Pack Creek on Admiralty Island in Southeast Alaska on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (Nat Herz/Alaska Public Media) Efforts to conserve Upper ...

Alaska issues six total brown bear hunting permits for that entire region, all serviced by the same outfitter. That outfitter took two 12-day trips with three hunters apiece to that area.

After a disappointing polar bear hunt, Fred Bear dedicates a week to stalking Alaska's coastal brown bears. After a week of exasperating close calls, he finally sneaks within range of a giant brown ...

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