This story, “Fred Bear at 80,” was published in the March 1982 issue of Outdoor Life. In the early 1940s a seemingly insignificant event took place. A man from New York, who worked for the Corning ...

A mother brown bear charged a pair of hunters who surprised her in the Alaskan wilderness. They survived the attack. Photo by Paxson Woelber via Unsplash A pair of hunters stumbled into a mother ...

Alaska’s bear hunting season is a long-standing tradition thanks to the state’s rugged wilderness and complex ecosystem management. With two native bear species—the brown (or grizzly) bear and the ...

I spent 20 years guiding in Alaska. Either you get comfortable fishing around the Alaskan brown bear or you quit. The learning curve is steep, and the only way through it is trial and error—you just ...