For a variety of reasons bears are waking up mid-hibernation in Alaska. Is this a temporary phenomenon or a portent of ...

Ranchers once killed many of these birds for fear that they would prey on their livestock, but studies showed that the animal's impact ... America as far north as Alaska; they also appear in ...

Alaska has well over 130,000 bears ... and play a crucial ecological role in keeping down species of prey animals, fertilizing the forest floor with carcasses and fish scraps, and distributing ...