However, there are good reasons why you should pack bear spray even if you aren't hiking in bear country. While bears are perhaps the most notorious of creatures that can cause harm to hikers ...

You’ve got your backpack, your hiking boots and your bear spray. You’re poised at the trailhead — or are you? Shouldn’t there be a sign? Is that narrow footpath, leading straight uphill ...

Spring is in the air and bears are out of their dens. Reports of bear sightings and conflicts with humans have occurred over ...

The founder of UDAP Industries was mauled by a grizzly bear in 1992 and launched the bear spray company two years later.

Chaffic Moghrabi of Lac La Biche Sporting Goods says the business sells quite a few canisters of bear spray at this time of the year when bears are emerging from hibernation.

Bear spray is a highly effective deterrent when properly used against all mammals, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The spray is a super-concentrated, highly irritating ...

Delta Junction residents can learn how to react during a bear encounter and practice using inert bear spray in a one-day workshop offered by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative ...

Brad Johnson had been hiking for four hours through Wyoming ... Seconds later, before Johnson could deploy the bear spray he’d been carrying, one of the 400 lb. animals was on top of him.