his year’s Fat Bear Week in Alaska’s Katmai National Park – an annual event allowing fans to vote online for their favored portly bear – is drawing to a close. This biological motivation to seek out ...

ASHEVILLE — A backcountry camping area near Mount Mitchell, on land owned by the U.S. Forest Service, has reopened to campers after two bear-proof steel food storage boxes were installed by N.C. High ...

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Headed to the Tahoe Basin for one last summer camping trip? Black bear biologists who work in the Tahoe Basin every day have some advice and thoughts to share. When you ...

A close encounter between a black bear and two children has prompted the U.S. Forest Service to prohibit tents at a campground near Aspen. The bear scratched and left puncture marks in a tent ...

A bear is believed to have killed a 60-year-old Missouri man at Sam’s Throne campground near Mt. Judea in Newton County, which would make it the second bear attack fatality in Arkansas within a month.