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 ...

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

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

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 ...

With forests mottled in a rustic sea of gamboge and amber, many of us are out enjoying what autumn has to offer. While bears ...

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 ...

A Kentucky man is in custody and facing charges after allegedly spraying police with bear spray during Jan. 6 Capitol riots.