Brent Hudson spent 37 years guiding big game hunts in Alaska. At Saturday’s Living in Bear County Safety Course, he taught ...

He had gone to the wooded area near a federal cleanup site in Kodiak, Alaska, part of his job as an engineer, without his standard large caliber handgun and large-size can of bear spray.

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Two Kodiak bear cubs, a unique subspecies of the brown bear, were found in a rural area of the Florida Panhandle thousands of miles away from their native home, authorities said.

KG: “The Kodiak Bear Wars” occurred on Kodiak Island in the 1960s. Ranchers wanted to eradicate bears and make Kodiak a ranching community so an aerial gunning program was established to kill ...

If a grizzly or brown bear charges and attacks you, play dead. Panicking or screaming will alarm the bear and cause it to attack. “Cover your head and neck with your hands and arms.