Brown bears are not listed as an endangered species—in fact, some populations are doing quite well—but in Southwest Alaska, they face an impending threat from the proposed development of an open-pit ...

Starting in 2013, the Alaska Board of Game started ramping up efforts to reduce or even eliminate Kenai brown bears by allowing an unsustainable number of bears to be killed through sport hunts — even ...

The black bear is the smallest of the three species of bears inhabiting North America (black, brown/grizzly, and polar), has the widest distribution on the continent, and is the only bear living in ...

Although it is the sister species of the brown bear, it has evolved to occupy a narrower ecological niche, with many body characteristics adapted for cold temperatures, for moving across snow ...