What Alaska and 50,000 Miles Taught Me About Fly Fishing Gear

Fishpond makes a rolling duffel big enough to carry standard 9-foot rods, with room for waders, boots, gear, and clothes. But ...
KPAX News

Hunters fire handguns, deploy bear spray in separate grizzly encounters near Big Sky

Three archery hunters are uninjured after a pair of recent encounters with grizzly bears in the Taylor Fork, south of Big Sky ...
Boston Herald

Chunk, a 1,200-pound bear with a broken jaw, wins Alaska’s popular Fat Bear Week contest

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after narrowly finishing in second place ...
New York Post

Chunk, a 1,200-pound bear with a broken jaw, wins Alaska’s popular Fat Bear Week contest

Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after narrowly finishing in second place three previous years. The ...
The New York Times

All of the Bears Were Fat, but Chunk Was the Fattest of All

As Alaska’s Fat Bear Week came to a close, the winner was a 1,200-pound bruiser who showed “adaptability” after a major injury. By Madison Malone Kircher After a weeklong battle to the finish, this ...
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Alaska crowns Fattest Bear

Bear 32 Chunk was voted the fattest bear in Alaska's Katmai National Park on Tuesday, winning this year's Fat Bear Week competition. He claimed the title with 96,350 votes, beating rival bear 856, who ...
Phys.org

Alaska's Fat Bear week is more than a bit of fun—for the animals, size is a matter of survival

The most gripping week of the bear calendar has arrived. The Fat Bear Week is an annual online competition hosted by Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. This event, which began in 2014 as a ...
Boston Herald

Alaska’s Fat Bear Week kicks off with online voting to crown the most oversized ursine

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...
Travel + Leisure

Alaska’s Fat Bear Week Is Back and the Competition Is Bigger Than Ever—Here’s How to Vote for Your Favorites

It’s the battle of the bears in Alaska. The fattest and floofiest bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park are competing as part of the popular Fat Bear Week, an annual head-to-head competition aimed at ...
WFLA News Channel 8

More than 160,000 apply for Florida’s first bear hunt in a decade, wildlife officials say

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s first bear hunt in a decade drew more than 160,000 applicants for a far more limited number of permits, including from opponents who are trying to reduce the ...
Los Angeles Times

More than 160,000 apply for Florida’s first bear hunt in a decade, wildlife officials say

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Florida’s first bear hunt in a decade drew more than 160,000 applicants for a far more ...