Two hikers were hospitalized after they “had to fight off” a brown bear on Alaska’s Exit Glacier Trail in Kenai Fjords ...

Yellowstone National Park has launched a new education campaign in an attempt to increase the number of tourists carrying bear spray. Titled “A Bear Doesn’t Care,” the advertisements feature people ...

Bears are still out and about in the Smokies in the fall, looking not so much for swingsets but for food before settling in ...

Arkansas is black bear country, and it is possible to encounter a bear almost anywhere in the state.

Oct. 14—While impressive berry crops have kept bears at higher elevations this fall, there still have been a number of incidents involving people and bruins. In Montana, two occurred in the Taylor ...

The Wyoming Occupational Safety and Health Administration has recommended that a big game outfitting company “evaluate its training policy on bear spray use” after a grizzly bear killed one of its ...

Bear spray doesn’t supply “brains in a can” to survive a grizzly attack, but it appears to work a lot better than spraying bullets. That’s the conclusion researchers presented to more than 300 bear ...

The probability that you’ll ever have to ward off an aggressive black bear in Missouri is near zero. That’s because, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation, they’re “generally a shy, non ...

In one instance, according to Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks, two hunters were exploring near a known elk carcass on Sept. 29 when they spotted a grizzly bear. The hunters were said to have yelled ...